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And I could give you completely different anecdotes about my experience at a LAC and a research university where I’ve had professors go on weekend hiking trips with mostly UGs and do impromptu lectures on various rock formations as well as discuss how fracturing patterns were important to the oil industry, of which many are very well connected to. Or I can talk about one of my professors at my public research university who always invited us to lunch after class, and is one of the most important social workers in the state of Oklahoma. He also connected me with relevant industry professionals when I had a concern about a potential job, brought in state representatives to speak to the class on how sexuality debates occurred in the state legislature, and invited us to some of the talks he was giving. </p>
<p>Anyways, one of my concerns with the over-reliance of adjuncts, which btw happens at many LACs as well, has to do with their lack of acclimation to the general teaching philosophy of a particular department or school. I saw that first hand with a sociology adjunct who my school hired when a full time professor went on sabbatical. His expectations were far below that of almost any other professor at the school, and the methodology he used was inconsistent with the general departmental goal of having even intro level students be able to think like people in the field.</p>