June 16, 2006

The Proper Advocates for Adjuncts

By KEITH HOELLER

Higher-education institutions now employ half a million adjunct professors nationwide. In most cases, the working conditions that those adjuncts endure are abysmal. According to the American Association of University Professors, "part-time non-tenure-track faculty are paid approximately 64 percent less per hour" than their full-time counterparts. Many adjuncts do not enjoy health-care or retirement benefits, and few have any job security from quarter to quarter, let alone from year to

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