Re:How did we discard the idea of college faculty?
by zunzun on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:04PM
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University administrators responded to the market glut of PhD's according to the laws of supply and demand, particularly those running huge endowments who in reality only need the university itself as an excuse for the endowment - from this point of view expensive tenured professors should be replaced with the academic equivalent of cheap immigrant labor. This was not a "we decided" as I understand the use of that phrase.
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Re:How did we discard the idea of college faculty?
by schuetze on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:16PM
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Do you have any evidence for these statements?
In my experience, it's generally the budget-strapped universities that choose to replace tenure-track professors with adjuncts.
On the other hand, private universities with very large endowments tend to be prestigious and part of maintaining this prestige means hiring tenure-track professors to teach undergraduates, mentor graduate students, and to do research.