Teaching for free
Prompted by the now-infamous listing for an unpaid teaching position at UCLA, The New York Times looks at the realities of academic labor: “The unspoken secret had been fleetingly exposed: Free labor is a fact of academic life.”
“Volunteer adjuncts”
Says one professor, “It looks like an attempt to outsource work to unpaid labor.” I agree.
Here’s just one reason why someone might reconsider adjunct teaching
“‘Adjunct’ is a strange term: what’s adjunct is supplemental, not essential. Yet so-called adjunct faculty are now a substantial majority of college faculty.”
Creeping credentialism
Here’s a law firm that won’t hire anyone, for any position, who doesn’t have a college degree.