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adjunctification

noun

Etymology

From adjunct + -ification.

  1. learned borrowing from adiunctus
  2. suffixed as adjunctification — “adjunct + ification”

Definitions

  1. The tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who…

    The tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).

    • [...] but I especially favor it when one looks at the adjunctification of the profesoriate (now 400,000 adjuncts across the country [...])
    • I have in mind here, of course, the classic victim of adjunctification: the person who finished a PhD at great financial and emotional expense, would have been willing to go anywhere for a tenuretrack job, [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA