Do you love
teaching? Or maybe you love a subject so much that teaching it seems a natural
next step. Be careful of what you wish for.
Within our universities, countless
undergrad courses are taught exclusively by adjuncts. These educators, often
Ph.D.s, are unable to find increasingly rare tenure-track positions. They
scrape together a living teaching multiple courses each semester, often at
different and widely dispersed schools. Brutal commutes, huge course and
grading loads, minimal pay, and no benefits may be your reward for passionately
following your professional love all the way through your dissertation.
“Seventy-five percent of America’s college faculty earn less than $25,000
a year. Often hired one semester at a time with no healthcare or retirement
benefits, paid per course an average of $2700, faculty are now academia’s
migrant workers.”
- The Homeless Adjunct blog
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