Literature Review Blog #5

(2) Kendzior, Sarah. “Professors Making $10,000 a Year? Academia Is Becoming a Profession Only the Elite Can Afford.” Alternet. 10 Nov. 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.

(3) This article is all about how little money an adjunct professor actually makes. Also, it further goes into how today college degrees really aren't worth as much as they were years back.

(4) Sarah Kendzior is the author of this article. She is a writer, researcher, and a critic. She is a columnist for Al Jazeera English and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

(5) "My friend is an  adjunct. She has a PhD in anthropology and teaches at a university, where she is paid $2100 per course. While she is a professor, she is not a Professor. She is, like  67 per cent of American university faculty, a part-time employee on a contract that may or may not be renewed each semester. She receives no benefits or health care"(Kendzior pg. 1)

"In most professions, salaries below the poverty line would be cause for alarm. In academia, they are treated as a source of gratitude. Volunteerism is par for the course - literally. Teaching is touted as a "calling", with compensation an afterthought. One American research university offers its PhD students a salary of $1000 per semester for the "opportunity" to design and teach a course for undergraduates, who are each paying about $50,000 in tuition." (Kendzior pg. 1)

(6) This material in the article really reinforced that these adjunct professors are being treated horribly in terms of compensation. It opened a new door for my paper, and I had a new topic to do research on.