"It Does Make Me Feel Kind of Cheated"

"'We have to contend with increasing public demands for accountability, increased financial scrutiny and declining state support,' said Charles F. Harrington, provost of the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. 'One of the easiest, most convenient ways of dealing with these pressures is using part-time faculty,' he said, though he cautioned that colleges that rely too heavily on such faculty 'are playing a really dangerous game.'"

Alan Finder in The New York Times reports on the shift at colleges and universities away from tenured professors and toward adjunct faculty.