by Diane Calabrese

Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of Adjunct Faculty and the Price We All Pay, Edited by Michael Dubson, Camel's Back Books, 2001, Boston, MA

IS THE ANTECEDENT of the "we" in the title the population at large (probably) or the ghosts in the classroom (possibly)? Assume the former, and the title misleads. Society incurs no direct cost when temporary workers are used. The sum colleges and universities would have to add to their operating budgets to replace the 560,000 adjuncts now teaching would be enormous. At the same time, institutions of higher education are not really acting in bad faith. In addition, the economy gets a boost from adjunct faculty, just as it does from the use of any abundant, low-wage labor pool that is very productive.

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