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She is being paid by the course, not the number of hours she works. She has a part time job. She needs to be looking for either a full time job, more courses to teach, or another part time job.
She is homeless because she is underemployed, not because her adjunct pay is too little.
Although I understand your point, if we're being fair she probably works much more than only six hours a week. She only teaches six hours a week.
Lets assume its 3 hours work prepping for every hour of teaching. Thats probably a very high estimate, and that still means she only works 24 hours a week, which isn't much in NYC where rents are very high.
Although I understand your point, if we're being fair she probably works much more than only six hours a week. She only teaches six hours a week.
So do a lot of other people..it's called being "exempt".
She needs to find other work if she's only working 6 hours a week because you get paid when you're on the clock.
The difference between what her pay is now and how much she feels superior to people in "flyover" country because she's in New York is worth it for her. No health insurance? Surely a professor of her magnitude could figure how to navigate Obamacare, right? She teaches students that the world "opens up when you learn a foreign language" the world of homelessness. Classic.
Why can't she keep an apartment? She's about to go demonstrate in front of the Department of Education? Why not work a little bit more. Where's her husband, significant other, family?
Another tell you nothing but the what fits the agenda for the overeducated and overpaid NYT readers. You guys fall for this ****?
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Maybe she should have thought about how marketable her skills would be when she set out to be a "Romance Languages" professor. lol I can't imagine there is much demand for the courses she is qualified to teach.
Like many others with that type of education, she could easily get a job at a retail store to make ends meet.
She is homeless because she is underemployed, not because her adjunct pay is too little.
^^ This.
As a former adjunct (seven years) I find this "article" infuriating.
She is going to Albany to "protest working conditions for adjunct college professors." Really? What does she want? A full professor's salary? No wonder she is planning a "one woman demonstration." I'm not sure there is another adjunct out there who is this big an idiot.
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