Hey guys,
In the past I've been told that a school's number of adjunct professors can negatively affect the school's rank. I tried to do some research on this to see if the idea is true, but pretty much found nothing. Thoughts?
Number of Adjunct Profs Negatively Impacting Rank? Forum
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S-IV
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MrPapagiorgio
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Re: Number of Adjunct Profs Negatively Impacting Rank?
Don't know, but fortunately the number of chairs in the library can more than make up for it.
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S-IV
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Re: Number of Adjunct Profs Negatively Impacting Rank?
LOL!MrPapagiorgio wrote:Don't know, but fortunately the number of chairs in the library can more than make up for it.
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Samara
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Re: Number of Adjunct Profs Negatively Impacting Rank?
Here's the ranking methodology: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... ology-2012S-IV wrote:Hey guys,
In the past I've been told that a school's number of adjunct professors can negatively affect the school's rank. I tried to do some research on this to see if the idea is true, but pretty much found nothing. Thoughts?
Unless the number of adjunct professors affect the student/faculty ratio or the peer assessment, they don't have any impact on rankings.
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Opie
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Re: Number of Adjunct Profs Negatively Impacting Rank?
Some top schools have a lot of adjuncts because those people have careers that are considered more important that teaching.
