Definition of "adjuncting"

On my first day of adjuncting at a community college, I had students explain to me that they were majoring in gunsmithing and firefighting. It was a culture shock, to say the least.

2014 August 14, Pamela J. Hobart, “Things Only An Adjunct Professor Would Understand”, in Bustle‎, archived from the original on 2023-01-30

There is a complicated culture of silence that surrounds adjuncting. Schools have no incentive to draw attention to how many adjuncts most institutions now rely on, and as for the adjuncts themselves, addressing the subject raises awkward questions, and might even put their jobs at risk: in her essay "The Teaching Class," Rachel Riederer recounts how merely explaining how adjuncting worked to a group of students outside of class threw one adjunct's job into jeopardy.

2015 March 25, Carmen Maria Machado, “O Adjunct! My Adjunct!”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, archived from the original on 2023-04-24