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  The plight of adjunct faculty

  This country is in dire need of re-examining the ways in which adjunct faculty are hired, retained, and remunerated. The adjunct system is a travesty, an abuse of power, and a detriment to the educational system in America. The inequities have got to STOP! How many students understand that the majority of their teachers have no job security, make 50% of what their full-time counterparts make, and often have no health ...more »

  This country is in dire need of re-examining the ways in which adjunct faculty are hired, retained, and remunerated. The adjunct system is a travesty, an abuse of power, and a detriment to the educational system in America. The inequities have got to STOP! How many students understand that the majority of their teachers have no job security, make 50% of what their full-time counterparts make, and often have no health or retirement benefits whatsoever? This is antithetical to everything education represents, both to students and to the larger community.

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  Remember Adjunct Faculty

  Please include Adjunct Faculty in this policy discussion. We account for the vast majority of the faculty at all community colleges. We are no less qualified -- I have a Masters from Yale -- and no less committed!

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  Adjunct Faculty Need Access to Services

  Adjunct Faculty need to be provided the same access to services and facilities as is accorded to full-time faculty. This includes office space, computer systems, secretarial, reprographics, library, information, parking, technology, et cetera. I have written at length on how the disparity between Adjunct (or "contingent") faculty and full-time faculty impairs the institution's ability to deliver education to the students: ...more »

  Adjunct Faculty need to be provided the same access to services and facilities as is accorded to full-time faculty. This includes office space, computer systems, secretarial, reprographics, library, information, parking, technology, et cetera.

  I have written at length on how the disparity between Adjunct (or "contingent") faculty and full-time faculty impairs the institution's ability to deliver education to the students:

  www.hecommission.state.ny.us/hearings/Dec052007/CHE-PUBHER12-05_15Ryesky.pdf

  -- KHR

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  Part-time faculty

  Give adjunct faculty an even break; they are doing most of the real work (teaching).

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  Give faculty same protections McDonald's employees get!

  Adjunct faculty compose more than 70% of the faculty at community colleges, yet because they are typically considered 'contractors', they do not receive even the minimum labor law protection that a McDonald's employee gets. Adjuncts do not have minimum wage protections. Adjuncts do not have discrimination protections. Adjuncts do not have safe working environment protections. Adjuncts do not have overtime protections ...more »

  Adjunct faculty compose more than 70% of the faculty at community colleges, yet because they are typically considered 'contractors', they do not receive even the minimum labor law protection that a McDonald's employee gets. Adjuncts do not have minimum wage protections. Adjuncts do not have discrimination protections. Adjuncts do not have safe working environment protections. Adjuncts do not have overtime protections or even protection from working a 7 day work week. Adjuncts can be fired for any reason including those prohibited by law for most other employees and do not receive unemployment insurance. Adjuncts even have to pay their own social security!

  And these are the people teaching our next generation. Isn't it time we at least give them the minimum of labor law protections?

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  Adjunct Faculty Salary

  I suggest you pay more attention to the plight of adjunct faculty -- My college (Brevard Community College in Florida) just raised the salary of full timers, and left adjuncts unchanged. Those who teach 5 classes, earn $40,000 a year. Those who teach 4 classes every term (which is not always possible) earn $18,000. Many of us do great work, but this is obviously NOT conducive to quality education for our students.

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  Submitted by matagiriperkins 2 years ago

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  Improved adjunct pay / insurance

  How about treating adjunct / contingent faculty with some respect and equal pay for equal work? The lack of decent pay and insurance for those who teach the majority of CC courses is a glaring oversight at best, but more likely an egregious exploitation of labor that continues unchecked in most places.

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  Include Adjunct & Contingent Faculty in the Conversation

  Please include the voices of some of the nearly 1 million adjunct & contingent faculty who teach on American college and university campuses. How can you have a serious discussion without including the ever-marginalized contingent faculty upon whom the community college system depends for its very survival? It's insulting that these important stakeholders are being left out of the conversation.

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  Incentives for colleges to fairly compensate adjuncts

  Do teachers need recognition and support for doing this important work? YES. Too many community colleges hire adjunct teachers for long term, pay them less and leave them feeling they should go back to community college themselves to get a better job. How do we go about ending this wage exploitation? Maybe incentives from the federal gov't to states and colleges, or matching funds for states and colleges to bridge ...more »

  Do teachers need recognition and support for doing this important work? YES. Too many community colleges hire adjunct teachers for long term, pay them less and leave them feeling they should go back to community college themselves to get a better job. How do we go about ending this wage exploitation? Maybe incentives from the federal gov't to states and colleges, or matching funds for states and colleges to bridge this financial gap or make these employees full-time. With full-time employment, faculty can participate in reshaping community colleges too. Reward their past underpaid efforts and encourage more creative input!

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  Fed.Govt. Payscales for Adjuncts

  At my community college here in California, there are 300 adjuncts, and 100 full-time teachers. That means, 3 out of 4 college professors have no benefits, and exist on about 25K a year. We need to be paid 50-90K per year to start. Transportation and Sanitation worker get this kind of compensation, as well as College Administrators. Why not adjunct professors?! An Asst. Chancellor in my district was just hired ...more »

  At my community college here in California, there are 300 adjuncts, and 100 full-time teachers.

  That means, 3 out of 4 college professors have no benefits, and exist on about 25K a year. We need to be paid 50-90K per year to start. Transportation and Sanitation worker get this kind of compensation, as well as College Administrators. Why not adjunct professors?!

  An Asst. Chancellor in my district was just hired for 162K, a year. This is a position that has been empty for two years.( If it has been empty for two years, the question then becomes... Do we really need it"?)

  We are in charge of the minds of the future, the most precious commodity of a great society. As a result, we are given more work, less pay, and told that we are lucky to have a job.

  For example... If only I could pay for a new tire on my car, I wouldn't be riding on my spare.

  ...the irony of this situation being, that it is an economic analogy for the life of an adjunct professor. We are all driving without a spare.

  Adding insult to injury is a great way to keep dedicated professionals from seeking jobs in Education, and to see it as a financially unrewarding option, barely enough to raise a family, or even survive in todays economy.

  If there one thing that the Obama/Biden team can improve,it is Fed.Govt. reform of the current pay scales for adjuncts. We need to be protected from our States ability to use Federally allotted money for their General Fund (see Arnold Vs Education 2010)

  WE, as adjuncts, are the ones in the trenches, and the ones on whom the whole Community College house of cards is built.

  Please help us protect the future.

  Thank you for your time, and good luck.

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  More Discussion on Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty

  There needs to be more discussion on the implications of employing significant numbers of part-time faculty. This group plays an integral role in educating nearly half of all college-going students in this country. Given the amount of negative attention PTF have received as of late, it's sad how little is known about this subset of community college faculty and how their institutions could best support and encourage PTF ...more »

  There needs to be more discussion on the implications of employing significant numbers of part-time faculty. This group plays an integral role in educating nearly half of all college-going students in this country. Given the amount of negative attention PTF have received as of late, it's sad how little is known about this subset of community college faculty and how their institutions could best support and encourage PTF productivity.

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