Forget minimum wage, some adjunct professors say they're making 50 cents an hour.
“It can be a tremendous
amount of work,” said Alex Kudera. Kudera started teaching in 1996 and is the
author of a novel about adjunct professorship, “Fight
For Your Long Day.” “When I was an adjunct, I didn’t have a social life.
It’s basically just work all the time. You plan your weekend around the fact that
you’re going to be doing work Saturday and Sunday — typically grading papers,
which is emotionally exhausting. The grading can be tedious but at least it’s a
private thing. It’s basically 5-10 hours a day for every day of the week.”
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