"End the University as We Know It": an op-ed piece in the New York Times by Mark C. Taylor, chair of the Religion Department at Columbia. It focuses on changing graduate studies, but there are some points about undergraduate work as well.
Of course, what institution pays adjuncts $5,000 a class? If that were the norm, I think contingent faculty would be a lot more satisfied with their work conditions.
Here is Marc Bousquet's scathing response to the article: he points out that Taylor's analysis is wrong in that oversupply of Ph.D.s is not the problem but rather the corporate university's structure--and that while Taylor calls for eliminating tenure, that system is already crumbling in the sense that 70% of faculty are not tenure-track at all but rather adjuncts, which has resulted in severe exploitation.
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