This is just to keep on using part time adjuncts and pay them pennies, so the university can funnel the millions in tuition into their endowment. Another step in college becoming adult daycare.
I believe that's part of it. But there are issues with tenure. I feel it's like pensions - dying out in favor of cheaper (for the company) alternatives. Without dangling the carrot of tenure, perhaps the distribution of compensation will be more level (ie nobody wants to go into education if tenure is gone and pay is the same for adjuncts now).
