It seems to me that part of the problem is that the people running these universities seem to care more about increasing their school's endowment than they do about providing the service their school is SUPPOSED to be providing, i.e. the teaching of their students.
All that is very true! All the right are given to administration, nothing to the people who does the job, adjuncts. We have no job security, you never know what will happen next semester (quality of teaching does not matter). That job is only for people who are financially stable, if you are not, that job is not for you.
this is pretty sad, $2,700 is less than i pay for one class as one student. and there are roughly 300 people in my classes. don't get how these people can sleep at night. really though the adjuncts are a big part of the problem. if they couldn't find anyone for such low pay they would have to pay more.
You are right I totally agree with you that ' real issue, why the government does not have any laws about that knowing that US has the most regulation in any other country education is the key to success after all isn't it?
There's tons of money. University tuition and attendance has sky rocketed. An adjuncts wage which is about $3k per class is paid by 1 student attending their class at a private university (about $2800/course). At a public university it takes about 2 students (@ $1500 each).
We must rethink adjuncts as what they are: temporary, part-time positions for highly regarded professionals/teachers of lowest level courses in very specific areas (e.g., native instructors in modern languages teaching intro courses). Adjuncts are NOT considered to be professors by the tenure track faculty. Stop the hypocrisy.
J P I agree. I think that the place to start would be with public (i.e. state and community) colleges. I'd like to see laws passed that require professors to be full time employees. And the only teaching temps should be grad student teaching assistants, who are used to support the professor, not be the primary teachers themselves. (Of course, at the same time, I'd like to see the entire concept of tenure discarded.) But this change wouldn't guarantee that profs' pay was improved. But there is something wrong when it seems like these adjunct professors are making less than many grade school teachers.
The problem is that universities are replacing tenure track positions with adjunct positions because it's far cheaper than hiring more full time positions. Decades ago the majority of college course were taught by full-time faculty, while nowadays it's the exact opposite: only 25% of courses are taught by tenured professors.
