"Dear Adjunct Faculty Member:"

Hi Clancy! I found your blog in the traditional blogging fashion, by clicking through other people's blogs. Just wanted to say that I love your site, and I can relate to lots of things you have up here.

What a great link...I am a newbie adjunct (a yearlong hiatus between Master's Degrees) and I'm still getting adjusted to adjunct life. I love begging for weeks to sign the payroll forms and then two weeks into the semester getting yelled at for not having my forms signed...or piecing enough jobs together to be full time but not getting any benefits because none of the individual jobs are full time...

But enough complaining. I do love what I do. I feel like I work 24 hours a day, but I'm learning a lot along the way.

Cheers!
Kaitlin

I wish people wouldn't publish articles like this. It makes the locals think that adjuncts actually get paid $4,000 a semester somewhere. We almost pay that for a *full professor* who is doing extra teaching for a semester, but not quite. Try about $1,500 less, if you have a Ph.D.

Yeah, yeah, I know that sounds tough. But we recently heard that fulltime faculty at other universities are making $150K, so we need to step up the exploitation. Luckily, Ph.D. holders in town can be picked up on any street corner, video rental shop, or coffee house. Chances are they'll have an M.D. or a J.D. to boot.

Hehe I missed that part...but it's true, $4000 doesn't happen here either. I teach at a private university and in a large state community college system, and I'm happy with $3000 if I can get it.

By the way...I do plan on pursuing a full career in academia, but I finished my MA in late September and did not have the stamina to leap right into a second Master's Degree. My undergraduate degrees (2 of 'em) were in Spanish and Communication and my first Master's degree was in Communication. I've been accepted to Oxford for the second Master's Degree, this time in European literature. Right now I teach 3 introductory communication classes (including the standard rite-of-passage public speaking course) as well as work 25 hours a week as an educational technologist at the private university. I'm trying to make some money for Oxford, and am on standby to hear about some scholarships.

KW