When Hank Kalet got his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in the 1980s, the vast majority of his instructors were full-time professors who either had tenure or were on track to get it.
But over the next several decades, Kalet says, the teaching load at Rutgers and at many other public universities nationwide shifted, placing more responsibilities in the hands of graduate students and part-time adjunct faculty, workers who have little job security and are paid far less than full-time or tenured professors.
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