adjunctification

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English

Etymology

From adjunct +‎ -ification.

Noun

adjunctification (uncountable)

  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).
    • 1999 March 24, Arthur Sowers, “PhD Revolutionary and Other Cop-outs....”, in sci.research.careers (Usenet):
      [...] but I especially favor it when one looks at the adjunctification of the profesoriate (now 400,000 adjuncts across the country [...])
    • 2004 April 30, Scott Smallwood, Disappearing Act: The Invisible Adjunct shuts down her popular Weblog and says goodbye to academe, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (also quoted by Desio, in Adjunctification, misc.education, Usenet):
      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 concession is often accompanied by the disclaimer that there is nothing we can do about the low pay and lack of benefits), the system is a meritocracy and those who are truly worthy do end up on the tenure track.
    • 2015, Michael Bérubé, J. Ruth, The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom, Springer, →ISBN:
      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, [...]
    • 2017, Stéphanie Dameron, Thomas Durand, The Future of Management Education: volume 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 11:
      Yet the adjunctification of part of the management faculty raises some concerns.