April 30, 2015
Adjuncts: Highly Paid Per Hour
For those sick of this topic, I expect this will be my last post. According to the BLS, the median hourly wage in the US is $17.09, and the mean…
For those sick of this topic, I expect this will be my last post. According to the BLS, the median hourly wage in the US is $17.09, and the mean…
Kevin Carson recently called me out on Twitter: “Here’s one of those adjuncts that Jason Brennan says could “easily quit and go to Geico” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/good-people-dont-get-good_b_5935690.html …” Two things wrong with this:…
“People aren’t supposed to burn buildings, destroy property, trash cars, break windows, or vandalize buildings, so when I see those things happen I immediately know that I can criticize them…
Thesis: If the Adjunct Warriors I’ve been criticizing could get over their bad faith, they’d recognize that on my account, their choosing to stay and fight has a *higher* moral status…
Consider the following: 1. Tenure-track (or other long-term, full benefits) faculty jobs are expensive, while contingent and adjunct faculty are cheap. Georgetown pays adjuncts a much better rate than most…
From PrecariCorps. This made my day. As one of my Facebook friends remarked, “If PhD grads aren’t qualified to the point of being responsible for their labor mistakes,…