Adjunct Issue

CHE blog (6/12/09) on the adjunct issue:

"According to [a] paper [delivered at this year's AAUP convention in Washington , DC], faculty members who work off the tenure track are largely invisible in that they’re not viewed as the public face of an institution, they’re unlikely to participate in faculty governance, and the issue of their poor salaries and benefits isn’t discussed enough. If more adjuncts told their stories in a systematic way, they could be their own advocates and “build common ground with those who can advocate on their behalf but do not.”

The implication that full-timers could advocate but don't struck a nerve for me as a senator. What do we, as the Senate, do to raise the profile of the adjuncts who make up so large a percentage of our instructional faculty? What else could we do?