The Colorado affiliate of the American Association of University Professors advises its members to take a job at the University of Colorado only as a "last resort." The warning comes in part in the wake of the school's dismissal of Phil Mitchell, an adjunct history professor who is also an evangelical Christian and political conservative. Read my article @ FrontPageMag that raises issues not only of political correctness but also the rights of, and wrongs inflicted upon, overused campus adjuncts.

The abuse of adjunct faculty is a systemic problem in academia. There is a relentless downward pressure on wages throughout all sectors of the economy due to the absolutization of the profit motive and the ascendency of conservative economic policy that redistributes wealth upwards so that it concentrates in the hands of the top 0.1%. The only way to stop this is to stop the privatization and corporatization of education and invest heavily in it through public funding mechanisms.

I agree with you on the abuse of adjuncts, both in economic but also in terms of academic freedom. I don't get your point about the "corporatization" of education. Government is more involved in higher education than ever. Certainly it didn't take a government, but corporate tycoons, to establish some of the best schools in the country, e.g., Stanford, the University of Chicago, Duke, Vanderbilt, etc.