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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
There's something rotten in Academia
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“…My friend is an adjunct [1]. She has a PhD in anthropology and
teaches at a university, where she is paid $2100 per course. While she
is a professor, she is not a Professor. She is, like 67 per cent of
American university faculty [2], a part-time employee on a contract
that may or may not be renewed each semester. She receives no benefits
or health care.
According to the Adjunct Project [3], a crowd sourced website
revealing adjunct wages - data which universities have long kept under
wraps - her salary is about average. If she taught five classes a
year, a typical full-time faculty course load, she would make $10,500,
well below the poverty line. Some adjuncts make more. I have one
friend who was offered $5000 per course, but he turned it down and
requested less so that his children would still qualify for food
stamps…”
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