Outsiders and students often don't know the difference between adjuncts and tenure-track professors, but the adjuncts and the professors sure do.
As one professor I know put it, the adjunct system is a cancer on academia.
"It has nothing to do with willfulness — you just don't have the capacity to know," Xavier Amador, an adjunct professor of psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College, said.
I should've known the minute it was recommended to me by a glad-handing liberal arts adjunct in barefoot running shoes.
Some are finding new labs, some are abandoning science altogether, and some are swapping their fading shreds of dignity for spare change, which is also known as adjunct teaching.
The need for part-time professors, known as adjuncts, is high right now.
New York University's part-time teachers, known as adjuncts, voted to form a union, according to the results of a mail ballot announced yesterday.
"It has nothing to do with willfulness you just don't have the capacity to know," Xavier Amador, an adjunct professor of psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College, said.
The City University of New York trustees approved a new faculty contract this week that CUNY and union officials said would better compensate part-time professors, known as adjuncts, for working with students.
However, we do know that the inclusion of EIS as an adjunct increased the number of women with HG CIN biopsies.
