In recent years the long hidden problem of the adjunct faculty has become widely
recognized, as in a series of articles in Hybrid Pedagogy published in 2013 and
a current CFP there, The
The serpentine struggle to make a living wage as an adjunct in academe is far
from over, and higher education is losing world-class instructors
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[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Another Ph.D. just applied for unemployment.
I haven’t received any benefits because my claims are
Writing the adjunct experience is its own genre now, having emerged from the
duress of countless contingent laborers who are tired of marginalization. We are
academe’s scapegoat. What I want now is
“Our visible invisibility means universities sit in the comfortable position of
never having to justify to parents the ever-increasing cost of a college tuition
coupled with the reality that many of their children’
If you’re an adjunct, I have a small but important task for you:
Ask your students what “adjunct professor” means to them. You might hear
something like,It means you don’t
