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    The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash
    The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash
    The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash
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    The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash

    By Carl Linden

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    A financial survival guide for adjunct professors struggling in higher ed today. Includes how to choose employers, avoid pitfalls, and prosper despite stress and uncertainty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Penny Press
    Release dateMar 10, 2014
    ISBN9781311281173
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      The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash - Carl Linden

      The Adjunct Guide to Cold Hard Cash

      Carl Linden

      Copyright 2014 by Carl Linden

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      Silver Penny Press

      St. Augustine, Florida

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      Chapter 1 : Welcome to the Adjunct Life

      It's the first day of the fall term at Big University, and thirty nervous freshmen have arrived on time to College Composition I. Their teacher is bright, enthusiastic and maybe a little flustered; he was just hired yesterday, doesn't have an office or phone, has no passwords for the classroom computer, and must rush off immediately after class to teach at another school on the other side of town. He's an adjunct juggling three part-time teaching jobs in order to pay the rent, keep the kids fed, and save his wife's vehicle from being repossessed.

      Many people outside of academia don't know what an adjunct is. When I introduce myself, I explain my job in various ways: freelance professor, gypsy scholar, academic gun for hire, independent instructor. If I'm in a bad mood, I call adjuncthood the equivalent of fast-food work: demanding, demeaning, stressful, and woefully unappreciated by the customers we serve (which includes students and colleges both).

      However we describe it, adjuncthood (aka contingent faculty) is the prevalent model of higher ed today. Most colleges and universities shun hiring full-time teachers and giving them frivolous benefits such as health insurance. Instead they opt for low-paid part-time professors, especially when it comes to staffing the grinding general education classes that students are required to take and often hate. You won't find a part-time college president, part-time financial aid directors, or part-time alumni representative, but chances are that Comp I or College Algebra teacher doesn't even have access to a reliable printer or copier.

      Stress, uncertainty and second-class status are depressing enough for adjuncts, but worst of all is the money. Adjunct pay is often scandalously low (at proprietary colleges) or frozen in a time warp (some public universities have not raised rates in more than a decade). It's increasingly common to find stories about adjuncts living below the poverty line despite full-time teaching loads. Many are forced to move back home with Mom and Dad, or otherwise scrape by with a handful of classes. The tragic death of Margaret Mary Votjko, an adjunct at Duquesne University, has shed light on the problems that adjuncts face. Change, however, is coming at a glacial pace.

      As an adjunct, I've made plenty of mistakes when it comes to salary and money. But I haven't lost my house or my wife's car yet. In fact, seven years after I walked into my first classroom, I've worked out a system that keeps my family comfortable in a high-cost area of the United States. It takes planning, hard work, and a lot of hustle, but I've also got a great schedule that has me in an actual classroom less than twenty hours a week.

      You, too, can build a career around adjuncthood that gives you the time and resources to live

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