An Adjunct Professor Asks: Do You Know Who’s Really Teaching Your Teen?

The other day, walking across campus to raid the supply closet in the English department, I passed a group of prospective students touring our prestigious university with their parents. Guides showed them our impressive dining hall (we have fresh sushi!), the theater and the grand library. I’m sure the parents loved the fact that all of our classrooms have computers and printers.

Students were probably excited about the diversity of both the student body and the faculty, not to mention that w...