The goose that lays the golden egg.

It is a slightly seamy academic secret that a significant amount, of the hands-on teaching in Boston's thriving higher education community is performed by poorly paid adjunct professors and teaching assistants. It is an ingrained, national pattern of exploitation, although some institutions rely more heavily on low-cost instruction than others. The best that can be said about such treatment is it serves as a lesson in classic supply and demand. But it also is a practice that, promises to undermine educational quality in a region that vigorously feeds off colleges and universities. We suggest that efforts by teaching staff to gain more reasonable compensation are only doing …