{"id":40514,"date":"2013-06-07T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40514"},"modified":"2013-06-07T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:16:19","slug":"mad-professors-the-adjuncts-are-at-the-barricades-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/06\/07\/mad-professors-the-adjuncts-are-at-the-barricades-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Professors: The adjuncts are at the barricades. [Burns]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/15080\/mad_professors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Professors<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from inthesetimes.com by Rebecca Burns<br \/>\n<em>The adjuncts are at the barricades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That so many advanced degree-holders are toiling in poverty conditions flies in the face of the assumption that higher education is a path to prosperity. But low wages and precarity represent the new norm for what some adjuncts have termed \u201cacademia\u2019s version of apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hired on a contract basis, adjuncts (who may include contingent full-time faculty) are paid by the course\u2014the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu.org\/2013\/04\/adjunct-symposium-unites-contingent-faculty-in-bos.php\">average rate<\/a> is $2,900, according to crowd-sourced figures from the website the <a href=\"http:\/\/adjunct.chronicle.com\/\">Adjunct Project<\/a>. Most contingent faculty are also excluded from access to health insurance or other benefits, and are guaranteed neither a full teaching load nor a steady contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad Professors &#8212; from inthesetimes.com by Rebecca Burns The adjuncts are at the barricades. Excerpt: That so many advanced degree-holders are toiling in poverty conditions flies in the face of the assumption that higher education is a path to prosperity. But low wages and precarity represent the new norm for what some adjuncts have termed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,3],"tags":[729,566],"class_list":["post-40514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-higher-education","tag-adjunct-faculty","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40515,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40514\/revisions\/40515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}