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The Adjunct Underclass - How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission (Hardcover)
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The Adjunct Underclass - How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission (Hardcover)
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Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The
professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little
sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across
the city to a different university to teach another, wholly
different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are
factored in, barely reaches minimum wage. Welcome to the life of
the mind in the gig economy. Over the past few decades, the job of
college professor has been utterly transformed—for the worse.
America’s colleges and universities were designed to serve
students and create knowledge through the teaching, research, and
stability that come with the longevity of tenured faculty, but
higher education today is dominated by adjuncts. In 1975, only
thirty percent of faculty held temporary or part-time positions. By
2011, as universities faced both a decrease in public support and
ballooning administrative costs, that number topped fifty percent.
Now, some surveys suggest that as many as seventy percent of
American professors are working course-to-course, with few
benefits, little to no security, and extremely low pay. In The
Adjunct Underclass, Herb Childress draws on his own firsthand
experience and that of other adjuncts to tell the story of how
higher education reached this sorry state. Pinpointing numerous
forces within and beyond higher ed that have driven this shift, he
shows us the damage wrought by contingency, not only on the adjunct
faculty themselves, but also on students, the permanent faculty and
administration, and the nation. How can we say that we value higher
education when we treat educators like desperate day laborers?
Measured but passionate, rooted in facts but sure to shock, The
Adjunct Underclass reveals the conflicting values, strangled
resources, and competing goals that have fundamentally changed our
idea of what college should be. This book is a call to arms for
anyone who believes that strong colleges are vital to society
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2019 |
Authors: |
Herb Childress
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-49666-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-49666-X |
Barcode: |
9780226496665 |
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