Adjunct professors commonly teach two or more courses per semester. Since the per-course pay is low, they may teach courses at several institutions; according to the Adjunct Project, a website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, an online data-gathering site for adjunct faculty, many adjuncts lack an office space and time to meet with students. They do not qualify for benefits, and in the worst cases adjuncts can teach for many years without job security or advancement....Adjuncts who are hired on a contract, work from year to year without knowing if next year their contract will be renewed. While many adjuncts view their contract jobs as a stepping-stone to advancement, there are far fewer tenured positions than there are adjuncts to move into them. Many put up with the job insecurity because teaching is what they love to do.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:23:06 +0000
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