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adjunctification

adjunctification noun: the tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).

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).
    • [...] but I especially favor it when one looks at the adjunctification of the profesoriate (now 400,000 adjuncts across the country [...])1999 March 24, Arthur Sowers, “PhD Revolutionary and Other Cop-outs....”, in sci.research.careers (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...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...

Examples of adjunctification in a sentence

  • Among the responses by full-time faculty to the problem of adjunctification is a line of argument that I find rather curious.2004 April 30, Scott Smallwood, Disappearing Act: The Invisible Adjunct shuts down her popular Weblog and says goodbye to academe, in The...
  • Yet the adjunctification of part of the management faculty raises some concerns.2017, Stéphanie Dameron, Thomas Durand, The Future of Management Education: volume 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 11:

Origin of adjunctification

From adjunct + -ification.

Questions about adjunctification

What does adjunctification mean?
Adjunctification means the tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).
How do you use adjunctification in a sentence?
Among the responses by full-time faculty to the problem of adjunctification is a line of argument that I find rather curious.
What part of speech is adjunctification?
Adjunctification is a noun.

Words near adjunctification in the dictionary

  1. adjunct professors
  2. adjunct treatment
  3. adjunct treatments
  4. adjuncted
  5. adjuncthood
  6. adjunctification
  7. adjuncting
  8. adjunction
  9. adjunctions
  10. adjunctive
  11. adjunctively

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