The era of college courses taught mostly by tenured professors, who spend time on research and scholarly pursuits in addition to teaching, has been fading fast. Increasingly, the work of instructing students now rests with lecturers or adjuncts — non-tenure-track faculty, almost always working part time for less money and with almost no job security.
On a per-hour basis they might make $70 to $120. But that’s only for the hours they’re in front of a classroom. The outside-of-class responsibilities easily triple their workload. They must plan lessons, grade papers and tests, write letters of recommendation, deal with students’ other needs and hold office hours — in whatever space they can find because they’re seldom assigned an office.
They invent shortcuts, Worthen said, including reducing the number of assignments so that they have less grading to do, or holding “office visits” by phone. They might limit the number of letters of recommendation that they’ll write. And if a student challenges a final grade, it can take 20 hours to look up every assignment and justify each grade. Some adjuncts would rather just change the grade than “donate” that much of their unpaid time.
Adjuncts need the “freedom to teach without self-censorship,” Worthen said, as well the “freedom to give grades that students really deserve.” Or as Martin put it, “Students have been emboldened and they will weaponize anything to make sure an instructor will bend to their wishes.”
opinion “If those adjuncts cobble together a full-time load of three courses, they might make $50,000 to $70,000 per academic year” 🤯 What stats are you using?!? Nationwide avg is ~2700/class, which would put your 3-3 load at about 16k/year before taxes
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