NPR: Adjunct Life Difficult Path to Full-time Employment
May 17, 2016
In the second of a two-part series on adjunct professors, 90.7 WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn interviews Ë®¹ûÅÉ adjunct professor of political science Ron Schmidt. Schmidt, who retired from the California State University, Long Beach after serving as a longtime department chair, offers advice to those considering academic careers.
The series was inspired by recent efforts by adjunct and non-tenure track faculty at Duke University to unionize. Today, more than 50 percent of college faculty are part-time adjunct professors, according to the American Association of University Professors. Glenn notes that at Ë®¹ûÅÉ, where adjuncts are hired mainly to fill in for faculty who are on leave or sabbatical, adjuncts receive higher wages and a lower course load than at other institutions.
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