Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages

Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages

Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages

Across the country, adjunct professors are being exploited for profit, and many of them have had enough of it.

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If there’s one area that isn’t contributing to our historic levels of student debt, it’s adjunct professor’s pay. More than half of all college professors in the United States are adjuncts, working only “part-time.” One in three of them lives near or below the poverty line, and one in four is on some form of public assistance. The average salary for an adjunct professor is just $22,500. University and college presidents make an average of 18 times more than that.

Now, adjuncts are fighting back.

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