Reader Robert McGarvey sent along this piece, and added the following all too apt observations:
No real news here...but the rise of adjuncts plainly is the most toxic force in higher ed in a generation. It is gutting the protection of tenure (although most profs seem too narcissistic and/or dumb to see it), it is trivializing the education of kids, and it is turning graduate education into a kind of Ponzi scheme.
The elite Ivies and similar seem to be immune to the PTL plague...but just about everybody else is a victim.
