adjuncts

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  3/22/2020
  

  Ground Operations

  by Josh Carmony

  A nontraditional history student argues that the situations of most of his college instructors were similar to those of his subcontracted coworkers in the airline industry. 

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• SOURCE: The Ithacan
  3/3/2021
  

  Commentary: A Farewell to Ithaca College after 18 Years

  by Sandra Steingraber

  The vulnerability of non-tenure track faculty to budget cuts and layoffs means that the interdisciplinary expertise universities need to sustain important and innovative initiatives is in jeopardy. 

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/17/19
  

  Career Diversity and the Crisis of Grad Student Mental Health

  by Erin Leigh Inama, Sarah Stoller, and James Vernon

  The myth of the academy as a meritocracy that rewards the smartest and most talented often generates anxiety and depression.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/28/19
  

  What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts

  by Herb Childress

  Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/5/19
  

  Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet Created by Erin Bartram

  The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/8/19
  

  Thea Hunter: The Death of an Adjunct

  Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

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• 2-24-14
  

  The Highest-Paid University President Makes 170 Times More than the Average Adjunct

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  An adjunct teaching a full-time load makes roughly $20,000. Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, makes $3.4 million.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-25-13
  

  From Welfare to the Tenure Track

  by Stacey Patton

  The story of medievalist Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.

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• SOURCE: Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
  10-6-13
  

  Adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois find their voice

  by David Austin Walsh

  The Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette profiles efforts to organize non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois.