Adjuncts must organize and demand more rights including academic freedom and the basic right to an exit interview. Along with action on the part of adjuncts, the regular faculty must lead by example and support the academic freedom and other rights of the adjunct faculty. With a good chair and department, adjuncts have little to fear. With a fractionalized department that cares little for adjuncts or teaching in general, abuses will continue. Parking lot ambush interviews with recalcitrant officials.
Desperate times call for desperate measures after all.
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