"I never knew what my employment would look like the following term and constantly applied for part- and full-time teaching positions in case I didn’t get rehired."
Why is the right answer to invest more money in adjuncts and not to encourage adjuncts to find other jobs? If he loves to teach, why not become a public school teacher? Many districts are experiencing critical shortages.
Nobody is entitled to a job in academia and if you are educated enough to do that, you are almost certainly educated enough to do many other more lucrative things. To the extent that an adjunct is a PhD that did not succeed in the academic job market, the right answer is not to force universities to make room for them anyway.
Universities have a perverse incentive to saturate the market with graduates that they can hire back for little to no money. That needs to change also.
Why is the right answer to invest more money in adjuncts and not to encourage adjuncts to find other jobs? If he loves to teach, why not become a public school teacher? Many districts are experiencing critical shortages.
Nobody is entitled to a job in academia and if you are educated enough to do that, you are almost certainly educated enough to do many other more lucrative things. To the extent that an adjunct is a PhD that did not succeed in the academic job market, the right answer is not to force universities to make room for them anyway.
Universities have a perverse incentive to saturate the market with graduates that they can hire back for little to no money. That needs to change also.