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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Sep 18, 2013, 08:08 PM Sep 2013

Death of an adjunct

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/

Death of an adjunct
Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor of French for 25 years, died underpaid and underappreciated at age 83

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/#ixzz2fICWtsKy

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Death of an adjunct (Original Post) ashling Sep 2013 OP

just horrible blueknight Sep 2013 #1

My wife and I are adjuncts ashling Sep 2013 #2

blueknight

(2,831 posts)

1. just horrible

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 09:20 PM

Sep 2013

my wife is a tenured professor, she says more and more schools are doing this

ashling

(25,771 posts)

2. My wife and I are adjuncts

Reply to blueknight (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 19, 2013, 08:54 AM

Sep 2013

After 25 more years of teaching I will be the same age as MM

we teach at community colleges in the area. I have 3 classes at one. She has classes at 3 different colleges

Community colleges around here are not giving more than 3 classes to avoid Obamacare recs

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