Colleges need part-time professors, but is the system fair to them or students?

Emily Gowdey-Backus

04/14/2017

SATISFIED: Jessica Geier, an adjunct faculty member at Johnson & Wales University, Providence College and formerly at Rhode Island College, is happy with her part-time positions. Geier, center, teaches a class at PC. In the background is senior Nat Bonde, of Midfield, Mass., majoring in accounting and finance. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Philip Eil is considered contingent by his employer – but unlike many others in his position, by choice. His job as a part-time English teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, which he has held for the past six years, is contracted on a course-by-course basis. “There is nothing regular about my work at

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