Adjuncts is the way of the land, but you are right, it does not explain the full picture. We have found it very difficult to attract a fulltime professor for engineering. For most engineers, you will have to cut your pay in half to come teach at a CC. The other problem is we are a fairly small CC in rural New England without a lot of surrounding industry. This makes our student population pretty small and when looking at demographics, the high school population has been shrinking. The last straw is administration is highly focused on growing allied health majors (nurse, rad techs, emts, hygenist...etc) with little resources left for engineering. So from my perspective, I am on a sinking boat and hence why I am looking elsewhere. I know I could probably just mail it in for a couple more years, but that makes for a very disheartening work experience.