{"id":2561,"date":"2011-04-17T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T00:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2011-04-17T19:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T01:35:30","slug":"life-as-an-adjunct-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Life as an Adjunct Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another article on the turn toward academic part-timers<\/a>. My wife spent twenty years as an adjunct, which on one level was OK with her, because the community college at which she mostly taught dumped hellish loads on their full-time instructors.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the pay was minimal: $600-900 per course. (Welcome to Colorado, where a view of the mountains is considered to be the equivalent of multiplying your wages by two.)<\/p>\n

But it is not just the community colleges that rely on part-time faculty:<\/p>\n

Even prestigious schools rely heavily on adjuncts, especially for teaching classes of freshmen and sophomores. At Harvard, adjuncts accounted for 57 percent of the faculty in 2005; at Boston University that year, they made up 70 percent. And over the last three decades, the number of adjuncts employed across the country skyrocketed by 210 percent while tenure-track faculty hirings rose merely 7 percent.<\/p>\n

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Yet another article on the turn toward academic part-timers. My wife spent twenty years as an adjunct, which on one level was OK with her, because the community college at which she mostly taught dumped hellish loads on their full-time instructors. On the other hand, the pay was minimal: $600-900 per course. 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