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On the PhD and Adjunctification

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting story about the Invisible Adjunct closing down her popular blog which discussed the role of adjunct faculty in the modern academy.

An excerpt from the Chronicle article on the Invisible Adjunct’s views:

“Can't professors see that a system producing so many people who can't get jobs is not an indictment of the aspiring faculty members, but of the system itself? Or if you really think that these adjuncts aren't of high enough caliber to hire, then the graduate schools are failures, not the students.”

If you are interested in the role of the modern university in today’s science and technology enterprise check it out.