Re:The Cost of an Adjunct
by imgabe on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:59PM
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Some should quit, certainly. I'm not saying there isn't an oversupply.
That doesn't change the fact that people who are paying up to $60,000 per year for an education should not be having classes taught by people who can't hold office hours because they don't have an office.
The demand for college education at all levels is the highest it's ever been, it should follow that the demand for professors should be high. Instead universities are charging premium prices and delivering a substandard product and administrators are pocketing the difference.
We're not talking about making a cheap cell phone and some of your calls get dropped, these institutions are charged with advancing and proliferating all human knowledge. It seems like the sort of thing we should care if they do a good job of it.
That doesn't change the fact that people who are paying up to $60,000 per year for an education should not be having classes taught by people who can't hold office hours because they don't have an office.
The demand for college education at all levels is the highest it's ever been, it should follow that the demand for professors should be high. Instead universities are charging premium prices and delivering a substandard product and administrators are pocketing the difference.
We're not talking about making a cheap cell phone and some of your calls get dropped, these institutions are charged with advancing and proliferating all human knowledge. It seems like the sort of thing we should care if they do a good job of it.