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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't already know, lots of top colleges, at least I know at Harvard and Stanford, are using visiting professors, at a pay of $3,000 per course a semester (from data a few years but less than 10 years back, so don't know what's the number now), and non-tenure track professors to teach undergrads. There are also very few tenure-track slots in those universities.[/quote]

You're describing adjuncts. All universities have adjuncts (some go by other names, and all the naming systems are different depending on the school).

A department of ALL adjuncts is not great. But [b]adjuncts are also essential because they are connected to practice in ways that full time academics are not,[/b] are not longer, or never were. In fact, if you're thinking about [b]professors who can help with jobs, adjuncts are often THE best resource. [/b][/quote]

Agree.

Grad students can also be great instructors for break-out sections & labs. Grad students--typically in STEM subjects--often do not speak English well/clearly.[/quote]

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