February 27, 2004

My Life as an Adjunct After a Full Career

By TERRY CAESAR

From full professor to adjunct? It makes no sense as a career move. It does make sense as a post-retirement option. Indeed, as more from an aging professoriate retire each year, many desire to remain in the profession more actively than by occupying honorary office space in the old university's library. One way is to teach somewhere else as an adjunct. That is what I am doing.

How many retired professors become adjuncts? There are no statistics. In part, this lack testifies to a broad

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