> Regulations didn't cause universities to replace educators with underpaid adjuncts, though
I don't think you intended to imply this, but just to be clear, adjuncts are educators as much as any other faculty. I work with adjuncts and they are in fact underpaid. I agree it's a position that should be used less, although adjuncts are useful in filling in gaps during the year (e.g. a professor has to take a leave for a semester. It's not worth hiring a full faculty member on a 3 year contract; it's better just to hire an adjunct to cover the class one time).
At the same time some universities are going in the other direction, creating well-paid full-time teaching positions, some of them even on a tenure track. We are hiring for one such position now (and actually have been continually hiring for this position for 5 years now)
I don't think you intended to imply this, but just to be clear, adjuncts are educators as much as any other faculty. I work with adjuncts and they are in fact underpaid. I agree it's a position that should be used less, although adjuncts are useful in filling in gaps during the year (e.g. a professor has to take a leave for a semester. It's not worth hiring a full faculty member on a 3 year contract; it's better just to hire an adjunct to cover the class one time).
At the same time some universities are going in the other direction, creating well-paid full-time teaching positions, some of them even on a tenure track. We are hiring for one such position now (and actually have been continually hiring for this position for 5 years now)