My main case or example that I am going to identify in my paper is a story about an adjunct professor who taught in Pittsburgh. Sadly she passed away in September 2013, and then her story sprung up all over the world. She was a non-tenure-track employee for 25 years, making only $10,000 a year, and received no health insurance. Once people heard of this the story really struck a nerve with many people because of the negative treatment of adjunct professors around compensation. Many colleges and universities are hiring more and more adjunct professors and paying them a fraction of a tenure-track employee. Some of these non-tenure-track faculty even have to live off of food stamps and sleep in homeless shelters.
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224946206/adjunct-professor-dies-destitute-then-sparks-debate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/education/2013/11/death_of_duquesne_adjunct_margaret_mary_vojtko_what_really_happened_to_her.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2013/09/18/Death-of-an-adjunct/stories/201309180224
http://www.adjunctnation.com/2013/09/30/who-let-adjunct-margaret-mary-vojtko-die-penniless-her-employer-her-union-her-family-herself/
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