Here is an interesting article those thinking about teaching at brick-and-mortar institutions. Although the article talks about the situation in Canada the general trend and message is likely applicable to other countries. http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=22cb8172-a706-498e-9f49-6d7b2594b28f "The unappreciated plight of the underpaid 'roads scholar' With no benefits and no job security, qualified instructors working on contract are little more than cheap labour, Maria Kubacki reports. Some are asking whether a 'more McDonaldized workforce' is what universities want." - Maria Kubacki, The Ottawa Citizen, November 07, 2005
Yet another adjunct trying to make it their FT income - instead of a PT job. Interesting how it's the insttution's fault that she's willing to work for "not much more than a convenience store clerk."
Actually, the article discusses the increasing preference on the part of institutions to employ contract professors rather than hire full-time tenure-track professors. The choice to work part-time or full-time is being made by the institutions as a cost-saving measure; the salary remarks seem to have been made strictly for courses which the professor has not previously taught and therefore required additional preparation time.
Schools COULD only use FT faculty - of course then tuition costs would rise. One of the reasons many neighborhood stores oppose Walmart moving into their area is that people vote with their pocketbooks. I suspect that he she had asked for compensation for the added prep time - the school would have given the class to an adjunct who did not need added prep time. As FT faculty - and an adjunct previousuly at several other schools, (while holding a FT job) I never seen "added prep time" as part of a salary. You can either teach it - or you can't.
