How Universities Treat Adjuncts Limits Their Effectiveness in the Classroom, Report Says
Colleges that want to set the stage for their students to succeed should stop hiring adjunct professors at the last minute and then denying those instructors access to the technology and resources they need to teach effectively, a new report suggests. “The ‘just-in-time’ staffing model is unjust for faculty and for students and clearly compromises education quality,” says the 26-page policy report from the Center for the Future of Higher Education, a virtual think tank of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education. (The center plans to post the report on its Web site today.) Contingent faculty members who are hired just before the start of an academic term can opt to prep their classes while they’re not on the payroll or resign themselves to teach courses for which they’re not adequately prepared, the report says. Add a lack of access to personal office space, computers, library resources, and curriculum guidelines, among other things and “the education experience of students suffers, both inside and outside of the classroom,” it says
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by Audrey Williams June, The Chronicle of Higher Education.