A university teaching job ‘without salary’? No thanks

“freeway flyer” adjuncts who piece together teaching gigs from half a dozen universities to approximate a living wage

I faced a version of this attempted devaluation in the last year of my Ph.D., when I taught a series of undergraduate science writing courses as an adjunct. No specific university policy prevented this, and I was looking forward to the extra income—until a university administrator told me that because I was now earning an adjunct’s salary from the English department, I wouldn’t need my graduate stipend from the biology department anymore.

We’re expected to love our jobs with a passion that transcends income. We chose “the life of the mind,” a vocation that lets us think and invent and discover and analyze and feel overconfident about our contribution to society. But the closer we get to that kind of career, the squishier the concept of compensation becomes.

As disgraceful as the idea of an unpaid university teaching position is, I can think of scenarios in which a scientist may find it worthwhile, maybe to build skills, augment their CV, or make connections for future opportunities. And hey, at least UCLA was transparent about the arrangement, as opposed to the many job postings that keep salaries a fun guessing game.

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