Exploiting new Ph.D.'s: a fresh twist
I missed this piece when it was first published, but since it just won an education-reporting prize for its author, Scott Jaschik, it's a good time to highlight it.
It's not news that colleges have been turning over more and more of their teaching duties to untenured, part-time instructors who receive no benefits. But one San Antonio College upped the ante: It asked some of its adjuncts to take on full-time responsibilities -- but also to sign a waiver abandoning any rights to the employment benefits that come with full-time work. Classy move!
Gwendolyn Bradley, who works on adjunct issues for the American Association of University Professors, told Jaschik, who writes for Inside Higher Ed, that the practice marked "a new low in the exploitation of adjunct faculty."
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