[The upshot here is that no one in his/her right mind will pursue an academic career and students are being cheated of their educations by harassed and overworked part-timers. So went American education — down the tubes. Ed Kent]
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Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
By ALAN FINDER
A nationwide trend for universities to use adjunct
professors instead of a tenured faculty has become so
extreme that some schools are pulling back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/education/20adjunct.html?th&emc=th
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