“Just say no. Don’t be an adjunct. Or rather, be an adjunct only if you have a day job, or you’re retired, or if you have a family to raise and a breadwinning spouse. If you love to teach, teach high school. Or get some other kind of real job. Let the law of supply and demand do its work, because drastically reducing the supply of academic victims is the only way colleges will stop victimizing them.”
“Indispensable but Invisible: A Report on the Working Climate of Non-Tenure Track Faculty at George Mason University.” Published in October 2014, this report highlights the key findings of a study of George Mason University’s 271 contingent faculty members.
“The Repurposed Ph.D.” A 2013 New York Times article about Versatile Ph.D. and other initiatives to train today’s graduate students for nonacademic careers.
