adjunctification

Noun

1. The tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).
   • [...] but I especially favor it when one looks at the adjunctification of the profesoriate (now 400,000 adjuncts across the country [...]) - 1999 March 24, Arthur Sowers, “PhD Revolutionary and Other Cop-outs....”, in...
   • Among the responses by full-time faculty to the problem of adjunctification is a line of argument that I find rather curious. It goes something like this: grant that the abuse of adjuncts is unfortunate (which...
   • I have in mind here, of course, the classic victim of adjunctification: the person who finished a PhD at great financial and emotional expense, would have been willing to go anywhere for a tenuretrack job, [...] - 2015,...