Not everyone is taking the situation lying down. Adjuncts have sued colleges in the name of free speech. Academic freedom is coming up at the bargaining table. And faculty advocates are warning that a dearth of academic freedom for some professors threatens academic freedom for all. But most adjuncts would rather not publicly discuss the topic at all.
Open mouths lead to closed doors, they say.
All an institution has to do is not renew their contracts. Adjuncts just disappear. If I'm in this article with my name, they won't rehire me. They'll come up with an excuse. That makes the academic-freedom violations of adjuncts almost impossible to track.