Literature Review Blog #2

(2)  Anderson, L.V. "What Really Happened to Margaret Mary Vojtko, the Duquesne Adjunct Whose Death Became a Rallying Cry?" Slate Magazine. N.p., 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.

(3)  This article from Slate Magazine tells the story of Margaret Mary Vojtko.  She was an adjunct professor making minimal money, like all adjuncts, with no health benefits and a temporary contract from semester to semester.  This status holds no job security, and really low pay anywhere from $2,500 to $3,500 per class each semester.  This article further speaks of all the hardship she went through because of her low wages and no health benefits.

(4)  L.V. Anderson is an assistant editor for the Slate magazine.  She normally writes about food, and maintains a food blog.  However, she has written this article about the death of Margaret Mary Vojtko and her story of being an adjunct professor.

(5)  EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission): a federal enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination.

(6)  "Duquesne couldn’t have saved Margaret Mary Vojtko, and it can’t singlehandedly save academia from its slide toward corporatization. But it can make life better for its 147 liberal arts adjunct professors—and their students—by recognizing the union and negotiating with it in good faith." (last paragraph)

"Hiring adjuncts instead of tenure-track faculty is unquestionably great for a university’s bottom line. From every other perspective, though, it’s a scourge. This is not just a question of adjuncts toiling away in relative penury. Overworked, underpaid adjuncts are also bad for students: Professors who don’t have their own offices, often must work multiple jobs to make ends meet, and sometimes find out whether they’re teaching shortly before the semester starts simply cannot devote as much energy and time to their students as they would like." (fourth to last paragraph)

"But that’s the problem: Virtually every university over-relies on underpaid adjuncts. With less public funding flowing into state and nonprofit universities, universities are more dependent on fundraising and on income from students whose families can afford to pay full tuition." (fifth to last paragraph)