What is an Adjunct Professor?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- A video in which we interview an Adjunct Professor at Cleveland State University.
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I am an adjunct instructor and I will proudly say that the university gets what they pay for when it comes to instruction. I have bills to pay as well and my time is just as valuable as a tenured professor teaching the same course.
I commenced employment at California State University Los Angeles as an Adjunct Lecturer teaching MORE units than the full-time professors. I was promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor and then to Adjunct Associate Professor. I taught days at CSULA. I taught 4 nites per week at Los Angeles County and Orange County Community Colleges AND an additional class on Saturdays at a private college (6 colleges). I left home at 7AM and returned home at 11PM, that's a 16 hour day including hellacious commutes between jobs on Southern California freeways (breakfasts and suppers from drive-thru always eaten while sitting in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic). Most of the colleges were on the semester system but one had trimesters and CSULA was on the quarter system thus every week I was giving mid-term exams or final exams somewhere. The semester/trimester/quarter systems had their breaks different weeks. The only week all campuses had off at the same time was the week between Christmas thus I taught 51 weeks per year. 16 hours days, 51 weeks a year for 25 years with NO benefits whatsoever. After a "Quarter of a Century" of dedicated service my retirement is ZERO.
Teach at a private school.
I was adjunct at two private colleges (one Catholic), same story, no health insurance, no retirement.
Don't you feel silly? What was the definition of insanity according to Einstein?
Twelve years here. 5 should have Been enough. I steer people away from it unless you feel it a spiritual mission. If this is what you love and what your degree is in and people really benefit it is hard to leave. Altruism is good for the health.
This guy knows his stuff, appreciate this video and it's topic.
Man-- this guy says all of the things.
This video needs more views. He should teach middle or high school. He will make more money.
wow talk about talking the truth!!! my hat is off for that....but the Doc probably got fire right after the video
Just found this video because of a random comment from an snl skit about depression. And that comment was from an adjunct professor. I guess there’s a correlation between those two.
Eye opening. Wow.
Poor guy makes 26, 000 dollars a year. Feel bad for my man, feel your pain.
Not anymore! There are many adjuncts now with terminal degrees.
That is crazy $14,000/year for a person who has Ph'D????? Are you kidding me?
jhon doe No.... just No.
jhon doe comments like yours are why we need more educated people in this world
@jhon doe Gimme a break. If you want to get anywhere in this world, you need at least a Bachelor's Degree. Otherwise, you can work temporary, part time Gig jobs for the rest of your life going no where.
@@nguyenantoan1 Unfortunately, we have a lot of uneducated people in the USA who are angry that they don't make enough in their dead end jobs, like Night Owl.
Ace1000ks1975 friendly fire. I have more degrees than the surface of the sun at this point. Check again, My reference was to John Doe.
just goes to show when you attend university look at it as a investment, you may love literature but majoring in stem will lead to those high paying jobs with a bachelor's and even higher with master and PhD.
I've been a professor for 30yrs FT & adjunct. I would NEVER EVER EVVVVER recommend this profession.
Wow. The adjunct pay in the US is rediculous. I've been an adjunct in Canada. This is my 10th year (sigh). I have a terminal degree. Our circumstances are similar, but I think we have it a bit better. A new tenure-track professors starts off at around 70 k to 78k. That would be their first year and then their wage goes from there. I make $10,000 per course taught (no benefits, no job). I typically teach two courses. Sometimes more. The hours that I put into those two courses probably averages to about 30 hours a week (sometimes less sometimes more). Despite having the same qualifications and often similar experience to tenured professors, we have low status, low pay, low morale and we can't organize. If we complain about our working conditions there is the risk that we aren't hired back. The system is broken.
This guy needs his own show.
I'm a masters student thinking about getting a teachers certificate and maybe being an adjunct, but........ Nah
Its a good idea as long as you have an actual full-time job. I'm a graduate student as well and I'd adjunct evening classes for an extra 5-10k a year on top of my regular job.
This guy is awesome!!!!💖
This number are no longer accurate.
When I was an undergrad (2016-2020) tenure profs at my school were making anywhere from 100-200k per year, I have no idea what the adjunct were making.
I can feel his cynicism
Wrong! You won't get fired buddy! You just won't get "rehired"...and fix that collar!!!
I am currently an Associate Lecturer and working my way up to Assistant/Associate Professor
@WorldFlex Failed..
Adjunct here....he's not wrong.
Oh come on people, let me be the naysayer who he said would comment. Full disclosure: I have a masters degree in modern European history. I loved what I studied, it was enriching and has given me a perspective on the world I would not have had otherwise. I don't regret what I spent 6 years in university studying but when I looked at the realistic job prospects for one with a PhD in history I decided to pass and went into business and became an entrepreneur. My love of the humanities still enriches my life and even informs my work (I actually love that I know that Isaac Newton paid 6% interest to borrow money). And then we have Dr. Brian who is a self-described "expert in images of fascism and Nazism in 20th Century American culture, post WWII" and is $140,000 in debt. I about fell out of my chair when he described how he was encouraged by advisors to borrow and borrow as they assured him he would be a tenured professor. I found this to be an incredible story, in the literal sense (not credible). Seriously, if he was in graduate school at any time in the 1990s or 2000s (as judging by his probable age he almost surely was) everyone knew who wanted to know that the humanities were churning out far more Phds than there would ever be full-time tenure track jobs for. I knew this in 1995 as did all of my peers. Some pursued doctorates in history or English anyway, either because they loved it, could afford it, got full ride scholarships, or what have you. But many, like myself, sought other career paths: some as high school teachers, others as editors, sales or small business people. I don't know what a fair price for a lecturer or adjunct is. I also don't know what value our society and economy should put on one who is an expert in images of fascism and Nazism in 20th Century American culture, post WWII, but after watching this video it would seem to be about $14,000 a year.
Teaching assistants under the disguise of Ph.D. students are similar but at a lower level and way cheaper shit for universities.
11:18 cringe moment
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He seems stuck. I hope gets a break or finds something more lucrative.
You should have stopped at your Master's. I'm getting a Master's at a Cal State and its under 10k a year for two years. If you have a basic 40k a year job you can pay that outright if you find roommates to live with.