#adjunctstories

#AdjunctUnderclass series: #Academics Who Are Treated as "Less Than Janitors" | @HamiltonNolon @Gawker 

America’s well-manicured universities are supported by an entire academic underclass of very smart and very poorly paid people: the adjunct professors. They would like to tell you about the “insanely bleak” job that keeps academia chugging along.

We are publishing true stories from adjunct professors about the realities of their jobs and the inherent inequality of the higher learning industry. This is worth considering before you take out all those student loans.

Also in the The Academic Underclass series:

The Misery of Adjunct Professors Keeps Higher Education Booming

Your Broke Adjunct Professors Would Like a Little Solidarity, Please

Revisiting a classic: #ClassStruggle - 2014 Ira Basen documentary |  @CBCSunday

It is a black mark on the ivory tower, a story of insecurity, fear, jealousy, thwarted ambition, poverty and inequality. And it's a reality that university presidents, and many professors, don't like to talk about.

Universities in Canada - which threw open their doors this week to almost a million undergraduates - are propped up by a huge army of part-time teachers, who are highly qualified and poorly paid. They have no job security or pension, and little hope of ever getting a full-time position. They go by many titles: sessional lecturers, contract academic staff, adjunct faculty.

#NAWD is a time to share #adjunct stories—old, new & these by @readerer @GuernicaMag June 16, 2014. 

The "new beginnings" trope is not just for the re-named/re-imagined precarious faculty Tumblr but for the other two in the stable, including this one. I'll be getting back into gear and jump starting with more stories...different kinds. Not all will be from or about adjuncts. I might even change the name from "Adjunct Stories" to "Stories for Adjuncts" or something else. Image © USA Today College

Our stories are complex and heartbreaking and important. Let's keep sharing. Labor won't be ignored.

Seth Kahn originally shared: Yesterday I shared +Amy Lynch-Biniek's blog post on being one of the lucky ones--a qualified faculty member who landed in a tenure-track job instead of…. The flipside of Amy's story is here. +Jessica Lawless tells a tale that's sad, hopeful, unique in the details but all too ordinary in its plot line. 

If you're one of those people whose immediate reaction is to respond with "Yeah, but," just don't. I'm sick of hearing it.