How “easy” is it for the professors who, for instance, teach at three different schools (sometimes in the same day) and still earn poverty-level wages? Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions—not just on your campus or mine, but on all of them.
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Joseph Fruscione received his PhD in English from George Washington University, where he's taught courses in First-Year Writing and American literature since 1999. He's also been a "road scholar" at Georgetown and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After 14+ years as an adjunct, he's preparing to leave academia after the spring semester for a career as a freelance editor and writing consultant. He's spoken about contingent faculty experiences and issues for Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle Vitae, Hybrid Pedagogy, and PBS NewsHour. He edits a column for Inside Higher Ed, "Adjuncts Interviewing Adjuncts," and is always looking for participants. Find him on Twitter at @ProfessorF74 | @AdjunctYoda For more information about adjuncts’ fight for equity in New York and elsewhere, go to www.adjunctaction.org.
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