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A PhD taught to teach your kid, paid like it taught them nothing.
means A part-time or temporary instructor hired course-by-course, usually without the job security, benefits, or pay of a full-time professor.
from From Latin adjunctus, 'joined to' — the past participle of adjungere (ad- 'to' + jungere 'to join,' the same root that gives us 'junction' and 'join'). It entered English in the 1500s meaning simply 'attached, but not essential to the main body' — a thing joined on the side. Academia borrowed that sense wholesale: the adjunct is, by etymology, defined as supplementary to the real structure, which is either an unfortunate coincidence or a very honest admission.
- pay rate
- often under 3000 dollars per course
- job security
- rehired every semester, never promised
- office space
- usually a car or a hallway
- teaches majority
- of undergrad courses at many colleges