June 27, 2003

We're Exploited, Not Unqualified

By JILL CARROLL

People who disparage the qualifications of adjuncts are operating under a faulty assumption

Three months ago, a colleague wrote to me and suggested that the real travesty in academe today was not merely the exploitation of adjuncts on a mass scale, but that students were getting ripped off because of the increased use of adjuncts to teach all manner of basic undergraduate courses.

Students and their parents, he argued, were paying exorbitant tuition costs to universities to cover

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