The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors
“Two half-time adjunct jobs do not make a full-time income. Far from it,” Ximena Barrientos says. “I’m lucky that I have my own apartment. I have no idea how people make it work if they have to pay rent.”
Hasnain says:
This was so sad and heart breaking. I was aware of the plights of the adjuncts in the US (and worldwide) but didn’t realize it was this bad. I’m glad they are unionizing.
There are so many quotes in there I’d like to cherry pick but I figured I’d go with this one:
“In fact, this is a big lie. The long term trend in higher education has been one of a shrinking number of full-time positions and an ever-growing number of adjunct positions. It is not hard to see why. University budgets are balanced on the backs of adjunct professors. In an adjunct, a school gets the same class taught for about half the salary of a full-time professor, and none of the benefits. The school also retains a god-like control over the schedules of adjuncts, who are literally laid off after every single semester, and then rehired as necessary for the following semester.”
Posted on 2019-06-22T22:33:48+0000