The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back

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The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back:

“College is no longer creating a critically-thinking citizenry who can participate actively in a democracy.”

Why? Adjuncts professors now constitute 76.4 percent of all U.S. faculty across Higher Education institutions. The majority of those adjuncts live below the poverty line.

How can we expect the homeless or hungry with no free time and no job security to properly educated the youth of tomorrow?

“We have lost an entire generation of scholarship because of this.”

“We moved away from a faculty-centric university to one focused on serving students … To attract students, universities need amenities to keep up in an arms race with other institutions,”