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Another unpaid adjunct job. This time from UCLA

Started by Diogenes, March 19, 2022, 07:47:25 AM

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mleok

Quote from: downer on April 06, 2022, 01:51:50 PM
Why not just post the link?
The comments section provides entertainment too.
My favorite was from Margaret: Friends don't let friends get Ph.ds.

The comments also raised the important issue of research scientist appointments that are 100% soft money positions, with 0% salary commitment from the university, and are entirely funded by research grants.

mahagonny

QuoteAnd the instructors who are pressed into teaching without job security are often women or minorities, who began entering academia in force as the system was shifting to contingent faculty, said Dr. Berry, who recently co-wrote a book on the subject called "Power Despite Precarity."

While slightly more than half of adjunct faculty are women, only something like 7% are people of color. In my experience when a new adjunct is desired the person who gets the job is almost always an acquaintance of other faculty already present. This would appear to have the effect of stifling the growth of the BIPOC adjunct population. Nothing says 'exploited underclass' like a sea of dark faces.