As universities build reliance on ill-paid contingent labor, it's the students who suffer

From a news item about University of NC,  Wilmington:

"... the side-effects of growth, the larger class sizes in critical
courses, professors taking on more courses each semester, *ultimately hurt
the students*."

How many faculty there are tenured / tenure-track?  The data isn't easy to
find. (Indeed, we need a good national survey of this.)

Is institutional growth being built on a reserve army of contingent labor?

This has job market relevance:  as people complain about lack of decent
jobs, this story reminds us that there are in fact *plenty of courses that
need to be taught*: but too often, universities are hiring on the
cheap, *refusing
decent compensation to the teachers they hire.*

I am not an expert on this, but I can say, it's hurting students and the
profession.  I can say that it's the expensive / elite institutions that
seem most likely to provide stable fulltime teachers, and that students
gain from that.  The question is, is that where we should be investing,
when the bulk of American postsecondary students don't benefit?

Dan

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