Thursday, January 16, 2014

(This) Adjunct is Dead (Inside Higher Ed)
     …Fincke says in his post that he’d wanted to be a professor since he was 17 years old. But recently, after earning his Ph.D. and spending three years on the full-time academic job market with no breaks, he’d mentally prepared himself for being someone who “used” to teach college. He loved the work, but teaching seven to nine courses per semester – enough to make a decent living – ultimately wasn’t sustainable.
     He also says that he was enabling what he calls higher education’s exploitative labor system, and that it affected him deeply. "I also realize that by continuing to allow universities to take advantage of my labor at a discounted rate, I was helping to perpetuate a pernicious system that was harming my peers and me,” he wrote….

3 comments:

Bob Cosgrove said...

Several districts in the state have made a commitment or simply didn't do anything when we left AB 1725. They probably, depending on financial resources, have been and probably will be better positioned to meet "student success" goals. "Student Success" is one of the current buzz words in our business. IVC and SC are just above the 50% law in terms of Full Time Faculty. Often times, schools or divisions with few FT faculty have more difficulty in developing curriculum and programs than those districts where they have 75% FT faculty staffing. I hope that the SOCCCD will move in the direction of increasing (gradually) the FT complement. That would make us more likely to better help students, programs, businesses, and our communities.

Bob

Roy Bauer said...

Gosh, Bob. You running for office?

Anonymous said...

Roy, you're a funny dude.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...