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Agreed … I think the same couple thoughts every time this topic comes up … </p>
<p>First, among the handful of best teachers I had in college were two adjuncts … and this makes sense these were folks who focused on teaching of specific knowledge areas. I am not saying all adjuncts are better but I do not understand why some people believe automatically that adjuncts teaching is a bad thing.</p>
<p>Second, frankly the teaching scenario I worry about most is a research universities and the few professors who only want to do research and half-ass their way through their teaching assignments … I learned to do Rubic’s cube in theback of a stats class with the worst prof I ever had. My experience at 3 research universities is that this happens but not often at all.</p>
<p>Bottom line … I find the adversion to adjuncts misplaced.</p>