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adjunct professors
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| Why adjunct professors are
struggling to make ends meet Length: 9 minutes Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities. |
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| Growing number of college
professors in poverty Length: 3 minutes A coalition of educators and college activists held a briefing for lawmakers Monday to discuss how greed in higher education has impacted adjunct professors, leaving many with slashed pay and benefits. Even more are in poverty if they are not full-time employees. Boom Bust correspondent Erin Ade has more. |
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| Adjunct Agony: Uncertainty for
part-time professors at DePaul Length: 6 minutes Wanda Evans-Brewer, an adjunct professor at DeVry University and Concordia University, is a Ph.D. on welfare. As some adjuncts in Chicago and across the country push to earn $15,000 per course, she and DePaul University adjunct Marty Bernstein discuss the difficulties of being a "second-tier" instructor. |
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| Why Do Universities Have Adjunct
Professors? Length: 15 minutes More about the adjunct professor movement. |
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| Professors in Poverty • Brave
New Films Length: 4 minutes Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years, has a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty. |
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| Food Stamps for PHD Students?! Length: 6 minutes Welfare isn't something you normally associate with graduate students, but its becoming more and more common. PHD students, masters students, and even newly minted professors are using food stamps and other government services because of low pay and high debt. Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks and John Iadarola discuss this crazy development on TYT University. Are you comfortable with college professors having to use food stamps to get by? Should universities raise their pay to get their students off of welfare, or is this just a natural result of the poor economy? Let us know! |
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| Adjunct Professors Join National
Fight for Better Pay and Benefits Length: 8 minutes Adjunct professors represent 75% of college instructors. This week, they are organizing events in 25 states. |
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| Who Knew a PhD Came With Food
Stamps? Length: 3 minutes The tightening of state budgets nationwide has pushed some college faculty members into poverty. |
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| Many Adjuncts Are Simply Stuck Length: 4 minutes The Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Stacey Patton @SPchronvitae talks about who is the typical adjunct. For the full story: https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/adjunct-explainer |
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| Faculty on Food Stamps 1 Length: 5 minutes A professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. The vast majority of all college faculty are now hired on a contingent basis. |
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| Faculty on Food Stamps 2 Length: 8 minutes Part 2 of a professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. |
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| 410 Underpaid and Overworked:
Adjunct Professors Length: 29 minutes More than half the faculty in the California State University system are lecturers – faculty with full or part-time temporary positions. As the number of tenured professors has fallen, universities and colleges are hiring on more contract based professors because of its cost efficiency. Correspondent Jennifer Gonzalez discusses the challenges adjunct professors face: job security, lack of benefits and poverty level wages. This episode of Equal Time illustrates the recognition adjunct professors are striving to gain in hopes of bettering the quality of education for students while creating fair job opportunities for those who teach. Guests include: Jonathan Karpf, California Faculty Association Vice President –Lecturers, North Gloria Collins, California Faculty Association Chapter Secretary / SJSU English Lecturer Kevin Moore, SJSU Linguistics & Language Development Lecturer Elena Dorabji, SJSU/De Anza Political Science Lecturer |
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| Predatory Employment in Higher Ed Length: 5 minutes "I'm 30 years old and I've never made 30 thousand a year." Monica Jacobe, who is about to finish her dissertation in American literature, describes her life as a contingent faculty member. In Part 2, she talks about her prospects for an academic job and the sorry state in which previous generations of faculty and administrations have left the profession. |
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| What's It Like Being An Adjunct
Professor? The sad, secret lives of community college teachers. Length: 5 minutes Further Reading: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/24/exploitation-of-adjunct-professors-devalues-higher-education http://web.archive.org/web/20171214233936/http://college.usatoday.com/2014/07/17/underpaid-and-overworked-adjunct-professors-share-their-stories https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adjunct-faculty_n_4255139 https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=/opinions/adjunct-professors-fight-for-crumbs-on-campus/2014/08/22/ca92eb38-28b1-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html |
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| What is an Adjunct Professor? Length: 17 minutes A video in which we interview an Adjunct Professor at Cleveland State University. |
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| Your average college professor
earns less than a sanitation worker..... Length: 12 minutes The gutting of higher education in America has resulted in a corporate model of employment utilizing affiliate college professors who earn less than garbage men and train conductors. This exploitation is reprehensible, immoral and indefensible. This abomination solely serves the interests of college presidents, boards of trustees and administrators at the highest level, while bankrupting teachers, adversely affecting students, tuition payers and ultimately all stakeholders in the educational arena. It must end. |
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| Adjunct Professors Join the
Fight for $15 Length: 4 minutes The March 30 Labor Forum program was unable to be broadcast on air because of a power outage that affected the Little 5 Points area where the WRFG studio is located. However, a video of the interview with Sally, an adjunct professor and Keisha Webb of Faculty Forward was done. This is a most informative discussion about how low wage workers form the majority of teachers in many of today's universities and colleges. Like other poverty wage workers, they cobble together multiple courses at different institutions, have no job security, and no benefits. Adjunct professors will be part of the April 15 mass actions across the country to win a $15 an hour minimum wage and the right to join a union. Please send your comments and suggestions to laborforumwrfg@gmail; Like us on our Facebook page and let your friends know about WRFG Labor Forum. |
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| An Adjunct Wonders When It's
Time to Stop Chasing the Dream Length: 4 minutes Chronicle of Higher Education Joe Fruscione has been trying for years to land a tenure-track faculty job, without success. Now he's on the verge of giving up. "Enough is gonna be enough when I realize that my chances are sort of dried up to get a full-time position, and that's when I know I'm done," explains Mr. Fruscione, an adjunct professor who teaches English literature at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. He adds, "My feelings, if and when I leave, I can already tell they're going to be bittersweet." The promise and challenges of a new career outside academe are exciting, he says. But he'll always wonder if all the years he has spent chasing a dream have been wasted. |
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| The Adjunct Professor:
Academia's Underpaid Worker by Sarah Morgan Length: 4 minutes |
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| “Disposable Professors:
Contingent Labor and the Corporate University” Length: 28 minutes Faculty Forward North Carolina Published on Sep 25, 2015 University instructors' job security was hard-won but slipping away. A Sept. 17, 2015 lecture at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill by Michael Behrent, associate professor of history at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., gave a historical context for the recent proliferation of adjunct and contingent positions. Introductory remarks by Altha J. Cravey, associate professor of geography at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. View Professor Behrent's PowerPoint here: https://goo.gl/fs9UZA Excerpts: “The rise to global prominence of the American university is tied to this [tenure] system. It’s really when academic freedom and shared governance become the norm in American universities…that universities in the U.S. start to become world-class universities.” Factors behind the “explosion” of contingent labor in academia include: --Administrations’ fear of instability in revenue and enrollment; less predictable faculty retirement; changing patterns in student enrollment including the rise of non-traditional students; --the rise of for-profit universities; technology; declining government support; and the rise of the corporate model including using “just in time labor” as flexible, fluid, and disposable resources. “I don’t think that contingent labor starts with corporatization. I think it’s important to see that contingency really is an ad-hoc solution that universities, and particularly public universities, adopt in the 1970s to deal with the economic crisis….But what sort of happened is, this created an opportunity for people who embrace applying a business model to education to sell their wares and have their way.” “What are the consequences of contingency? --“One of them is deprofessionalization. Contingent labor undermines the defining elements of academic professionalism. Our profession is being deprofessionalized. If you have a situation where you aren’t being peer-evaluated, where the traditional importance of a Ph.D. is undermined, the connection between scholarship and teaching is undermined, and even tenure itself is being abolished in a roundabout way, we’re being deprofessionalized. --“Declining educational standards….This is not to say that contingent faculty are poor teachers, but the positions in which they are placed, the resources that they are given the structure of their employment is such that it’s really difficult to say that that recourse – [making] a [position] contingent -- has the best interests of education in mind… --“Weaker academic freedom. … If people know that they can be fired for what they say, then they’re going to be reluctant to speak their mind.” |