Emma Stone breakout role FTW!
Speaking of Scarlet A’s and HEAVING BOSOMS, here is my latest on Vitae, in which I offer yet another offbeat “solution” to the adjunct crisis–concluded with a link to a very real, very serious and very awesome initiative by Sarah Kendzior and Shannon Garth-Rhodes, GEDs and PhDs. Yes, I shame people for hand-writing and then give them something to do with those hands: Donate ca$h money to a worthwhile cause that actually fixes things. Please donate!
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Awesome idea, because it creates incentives for TT faculty to improve the conditions for everybody. If nothing else, if students saw the salary range of their instructors, I bet there would be fewer requests for recommendation letters for grad school applications.
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HA so true.
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I like it. The only thing that I would worry about is if the catalog and corresponding salaries were presented in a way that would undermine my authority in the classroom from the very first day of class. I do tell my students about adjuncts and their academic labor (and I work at a relatively fair university with good working conditions), but I only do so after I’ve established myself as someone who knows what she is doing in both the content area and their instruction. I love college frosh, but I don’t necessarily trust them to understand the difference between what I am *worth* versus what I am *paid.* If they knew walking in that I was an “ADJUNCT” that makes, like, nothing, without knowing the full context of why there are so many adjuncts, I would worry that it would rip away the one bit of academic authority that I have – my own classroom. I guess along with the catalog, there would have to be a meaty information campaign, and TTs would have to be a part of it.
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Definitely something to think about. In my imaginary idea that, alas, will never be implemented.
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I actually recommend to undergraduates that they take courses taught by adjuncts and explain to them that they’re a lot more likely to get an instructor who actually gives a shit. Maybe there could be a pair of numbers after each course listing: A gives-a-shit ranking followed by what the instructor is paid to teach the course.
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So so awesome! Words can hardly explain!!
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It beats my idea of all the adjuncts teaching dressed up in a MacDonalds uniform 🙂
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