Working Title: Adjuncts: No pay, No Safety, No Life
Topic: My research will be focused around the fact that universities are leaning towards more adjunct professors. I will dive into the treatment of these adjuncts in areas like pay, livelihood, and job safety. I will further explain in this paper that adjuncts really make no money, have no job safety, and that a great percentage of them live terrible lives because of this. Some of the questions that I will look into answers for will be why is the pay so bad for these professors even when they have many degrees that make them more than qualified for the position? Why is it so difficult for these professors to obtain tenure? Why is that if they are forced into poverty that they still continue to teach in these conditions? If tuition is so high across the board at all universities why are these schools still focusing on adjunct professors with low wages?
There are many stories of professors who are homeless, live with their parents, or on food stamps. This is a big problem for me because so many colleges are still pushing for more and more non-tenure-track professors so they can keep the salaries down. Some of these professors do not even get healthcare benefits and accumulate high medical bills, with no money to pay them. The main angle I want to research is why their pay is so low, and what this is doing to them and the higher educational system.
ok, good start. But can you add a bit more and the bibliography?
ReplyDeleteI have a good source for you -- remind me to pass it on.