a lot of this blog post is about how universities come up with a long list of titles to avoid calling adjuncts "adjuncts". so you could ask this question, and t

a lot of this blog post is about how universities come up with a long list of titles to avoid calling adjuncts "adjuncts". so you could ask this question, and the admissions officer would (somewhat) honestly answer that they don't have any adjuncts. then you would go and have most of your classes taught by people who are adjuncts in every way except their title. a better question might be "what percentage of faculty are tenure track?" or "what percentage of courses are taught by tenure track faculty?". that said, I don't see much evidence that the "teacher-scholar" model brings a lot of value to undergraduate education in the first place. even in a fast-moving field like CS, the vast majority of the BS curriculum is stuff that was figured out decades ago. by far the best "professor" I had in my CS degree was actually an MS student TA who really liked operating systems. technically, he wasn't even allowed to teach that class, but I guess the department looked the other way because he got great reviews and they didn't have to pay him much.