The Cruelty of the Adjunct System
Alexandra Bradner,
Blog of the APA,
Apr 20, 2022
This opinion article is a strongly worded denunciation of a system that is, according to author Alexandra Bradner, unjust and dishonest. "Colleges are paying people with the same credentials drastically different wages for the same work, and colleges are not paying individuals what they deserve," she writes, and "families do not pay $20–40K a year to have their kids take classes from a rotating series of newly minted PhDs on five-month gigs whose attention is consumed by their low salary and job insecurity." I think she has a point on both counts. For completeness, I checked on conditions in Europe for comparison and found numerous similarities. Academia in general has an ethics problem, I would say.
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