Professors in Poverty | How Adjunctification Hurts Everyone

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Adjuncts and other contingent faculty make up more than half of all higher ed teachers. That's a problem. Let's talk about why.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Commercial Break
03:12 - Who are they?
06:07 - How much are they paid?
13:11 - This hurts everyone.
19:06 - What caused it?
24:56 - What can we do about it?
28:33 - Outro & Poem
SOURCES:
------ The Adjunct Underclass, by Herb Childress
------ How the University Works, by Marc Bousquet
------ "AAUP Testimony on Public Service Loan Forgiveness Reform" (David Kociemba, AAUP) ➤ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-testim...
------ "Barely Getting By" (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higer Ed) ➤ www.insidehighered.com/news/2...
------ "Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns" (Alan Finder, The New York Times) ➤ www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/ed...
------ "Homeless professor protests conditions of adjuncts" (Simone Pathe, PBS NewsHour) ➤ www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/h...
------ "How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis" (The Chronicle of Higher Education) ➤ www.chronicle.com/article/how...
------ "IPEDS Instructional Faculty, Fall 2021" ➤ data.aaup.org/academic-workfo...
------ "‘It keeps you nice and disposable’: The plight of adjunct professors" (Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Washington Post) ➤ www.washingtonpost.com/local/...
------ "The College President-to-Adjunct Pay Ratio" (Laura McKenna, The Atlantic) ➤ www.theatlantic.com/education...
------ "The Death of an Adjunct" (Adam Harris, The Atlantic) ➤ www.theatlantic.com/education...
------ "There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts" (Caroline Fredrickson, The Atlantic) ➤ www.theatlantic.com/business/...
------ "The Rise of Adjunct Faculty" (InsideScholar) ➤ blog.insidescholar.org/the-ri...
FURTHER RESEARCH:
------ AAUP Website: www.aaup.org/
--------- Data: data.aaup.org/
--------- Contingency Info: www.aaup.org/issues/contingen...
--------- Action Plan: www.aaup.org/news/contingent-...
------ "How adjunct professors became part of the gig economy," ABC News ➤ • In-depth: How adjunct ...
------ "Why adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet," PBS NewsHour ➤ • Why adjunct professors...
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