April 2014

Lessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class

Lessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class

If this can happen to adjunct professors, it can happen to the rest of us Working. Poor. In our US of A, those words ought never be juxtaposed. The very concept of paying poverty wages in the richest... Read more...

The sad death–and “second life”– of an adjunct professor

Until her death last summer, Margaret Mary Vojtkotaught French for 25 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, earning high marks from her students. Like most teachers there, Margaret Mary was part of the ad... Read more...