How to Treat Adjuncts

My latest on issues in higher education is up, on the subject of how to treat contingent faculty with respect.

It used to be the case that non-tenure-track faculty were assumed to be inferior to their tenure-line colleagues. These days, however, jobs have become so scarce in many fields that one’s position in the academic hierarchy is largely an accident of birth. One could probably instantly create a new university that would rival the world’s best simply by hiring from the pool of the un- and under-employed.

Suggests for best practices, at the link. I want to hasten to emphasize that I myself feel I have been generally well-treated, and that some of the these practices are based on things I have experienced.