On the topic of professor salaries, so what? The debate isn't so much about professor salaries across the board; but rather the discrepancy between senior-leve

On the topic of professor salaries, so what? The debate isn't so much about professor salaries across the board; but rather the discrepancy between senior-level salaries, and those of so-called adjunct professors (who are paid so poorly that the "professor" title hardly seems to apply). This has been a major sleeper scandal evolving over the past 20 years -- hardly unique to NYU; and hardly a trivial matter, if you are concerned about the long-term health of the academic system, that is.