Academic Labor No Holes for Us Round Pegs: Why Adjunct Faculty Don’t Fit In 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 Problem of Contingency in Higher Education [https://hybridpedagogy.org/cfp-the-problem-of-contingency-in-higher-education/]. The writers here at Hybrid Pedagogy have
Academic Labor On Labor, Learning Conditions, and Affordable Education 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 [https://jfruscione.wordpress.com/] and original contributions to research in the wake. The ivory tower is crumbling under the weight of contingency, and students are suffering
Academic Labor From Ph.D. to Poverty Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Another Ph.D. just applied for unemployment. I haven’t received any benefits because my claims are under review while the Employment Security Department determines reasonable assurance of reemployment. Per my contract with one
Academic Labor Re-Authoring the Adjunct Experience: 5 Talking Points 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 the chance to help others in my position by talking about solutions, not problems. We have heard
Adjuncts CFP: Calling Adjuncts to Action “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’s professors may be making as little as $16,000 a year.” ~ Margaret Betz, Contingent Mother: The
Academic Labor Not a Scarlet Letter: Talking with Students about Being an Adjunct 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 have a Ph.D., orYou don’t have tenure yet. (Yet…if only.) Don’t be bitter
