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News: Talk online about your experiences as an adjunct, visiting assistant professor, postdoc, or other contract faculty member.
 
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Author Topic: Furor Over Suicides; Government Action  (Read 2343 times)
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« on: June 09, 2011, 05:47:32 AM »
Not a chronicle article so I'm putting it here:

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110322000796
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csguy
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2011, 08:14:54 AM »
Clearly you really don't want to be an adjunct in Korea.
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2011, 01:31:59 AM »
Quote from: csguy on June 11, 2011, 08:14:54 AM
Clearly you really don't want to be an adjunct in Korea.


What interests me is the public, or at least enough of them, did not say "we are not concerned with the consequences of someone's inability to make proper career choices." They said "enough already! This is unacceptable."
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2011, 10:37:03 AM »
quoted from the article - "Adjunct lecturers also face various pressures including demands for kickbacks and other favors to school foundations in exchange for full time employment."

Kickbacks...now I have something to think about when I become department head!
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