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

The experience of adjuncts will vary greatly by field. A CS billionaire choosing to teach a class for fun after early retirement might be a great resource. But in my humanities field, adjuncts can't necessarily help with jobs. Yes, they may be amazing professors, but they're also probably working themselves to the bone, driving back and forth to multiple campuses (with no office at any of them), trying to remain in their field.

Maybe the otherwise employed and independently wealthy adjuncts should have another title (or maybe they should just volunteer?).[/quote]

I believe the otherwise employed were the original adjuncts. They should come up with a more honest title for the poor PhDs that can’t get full time work.[/quote]

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