>Some of these contingent employees are full-time lecturers, and many are adjunct instructors: part-time employees, paid per class, often without health insuran

>Some of these contingent employees are full-time lecturers, and many are adjunct instructors: part-time employees, paid per class, often without health insurance or retirement benefits. This is a relatively new phenomenon: in 1969, 78 percent of professors held tenure-track positions. By 2009 this percentage had shrunk to 33.5. Would be interesting to know if college prices began rising at a higher ratio to the CPI around this time.