Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor An interesting video talking to adjuncts about adjuncting. There is a discussion about this at Chronicle. What do you think?
The video discusses three strong trends in college adjuncting: 1. Low pay of adjuncts. 2. Plummeting tenure over the last 35+ years i.e. farming out McTeaching to low paid adjuncts who have no job security. 3. And the new variable: Reduced adjunct teach opportunities, due to the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) e.g. colleges are required to pay health insurance to any employee who works 30+ hours weekly, so to get around that law, colleges simply: a) Reduced teaching opportunities for low paid adjuncts and b) Hired more low paid adjuncts to "spread the workload around." It was a very informative video.
