The adjunct underclass how America's colleges betrayed their faculty, their students, and their mission

"Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car... to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, on...

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1. Verfasser: Childress, Herb 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press [2019]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface: This is how you kill a profession
  • What the brochures don't tell you
  • The permanent and the contingent
  • Bronze, silver, gold, or platinum
  • Building the contingent workforce
  • If we don't pay teachers, why is my tuition so high?
  • The comforts of those inside the castle
  • Hapless bystanders
  • What to do?
  • Aftermath: life in exile