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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) ➤ https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-testimony-public-service-loan-forgiveness-reform-part-one#.Y785TXbMJaY
------ "Barely Getting By" (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higer Ed) ➤ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/20/new-report-says-many-adjuncts-make-less-3500-course-and-25000-year
------ "Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns" (Alan Finder, The New York Times) ➤ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/education/20adjunct.html
------ "Homeless professor protests conditions of adjuncts" (Simone Pathe, PBS NewsHour) ➤ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/homeless-professor-protests-conditions-adjuncts
------ "How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis" (The Chronicle of Higher Education) ➤ https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-fix-the-adjunct-crisis/
------ "IPEDS Instructional Faculty, Fall 2021" ➤ https://data.aaup.org/academic-workforce/
------ "‘It keeps you nice and disposable’: The plight of adjunct professors" (Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Washington Post) ➤ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/it-keeps-you-nice-and-disposable-the-plight-of-adjunct-professors/2019/02/14/6cd5cbe4-024d-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html
------ "The College President-to-Adjunct Pay Ratio" (Laura McKenna, The Atlantic) ➤ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/income-inequality-in-higher-education-the-college-president-to-adjunct-pay-ratio/407029/
------ "The Death of an Adjunct" (Adam Harris, The Atlantic) ➤ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/
------ "There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts" (Caroline Fredrickson, The Atlantic) ➤ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/
------ "The Rise of Adjunct Faculty" (InsideScholar) ➤ https://blog.insidescholar.org/the-rise-of-adjunct-faculty/
FURTHER RESEARCH:
------ AAUP Website: https://www.aaup.org/
--------- Data: https://data.aaup.org/
--------- Contingency Info: https://www.aaup.org/issues/contingent-faculty-positions/resources-contingent-positions
--------- Action Plan: https://www.aaup.org/news/contingent-faculty-and-global-pandemic#.Y78sOXbMJaY
------ "How adjunct professors became part of the gig economy," ABC News ➤ https://youtu.be/-at7InM0CjY
------ "Why adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet," PBS NewsHour ➤ https://youtu.be/Bz4pK8UP4PM
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