Just read in the NYT today that “90 % of the New School’s faculty are part time adjunct professors”. I’m stunned it is this high. Made me wonder if this is common at other places as well. Or is it just more common at large R1s than smaller institutions?
Accreditation pressure would only be relevant in businesses schools, no ?
[Edit: it was just a question. I do not understand where all this rage downvoting comes from.]
Oh no, absolutely not. Every school and department is affected.
Regional accreditation matters for the full school, and various other specialty accreditations matter for those disciplines. My (current) department is accredited with the university, and with a national body and we need to meet the expectations of both. We got a new full time position this past year purely because my department was out of alignment with the regional university accreditors due to our adjunct dependencies.
That makes me wonder how these online digital diploma mills with no full time faculty get accredited but I suppose that’s a post for another day …
Many of them aren’t