How can precariously employed adjunct faculty convincingly guide architecture students to stable careers?


Peggy Deamer, Tom Fisher

The Architect’s Newspaper

October 2, 2024

Excerpt:

“If anything, universities’ dependence on adjuncts reveals an unsustainable underbelly—institutions trying to control costs and moderate tuition increases on the backs of adjunct faculty in order to balance their budgets. As the group gathered at The Architectural League noted, this creates “architecture’s painful paradox: Within institutions of learning, the most engaged workers are the least supported.””

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