The University of Memphis has given adjunct professors their first raise in three decades. Now, an adjunct teaching a full load could earn up to $12,600 a year. Yay.
Your Professors Are in the Struggle and They're Not Winning Yet
This will be the eighth and final installment of our series highlighting true stories from adjunct professors, the best-educated low-wage workers in America.
"Academic Apartheid" in Higher Education
Before you go into great debt to send your kid to college, you should hear from the low-paid, ill-treated workers who will actually be educating them: adjunct professors. They are sharing their stories with us. Their view is much different from the one you’ll find in the college brochure.
"Don't Stay in School, Kids"
American universities spend half a trillion dollars a year. Very little of that money goes to the people who do a huge part of the teaching: the adjunct professors, academia’s hidden underclass. They are telling us their stories. They’re not pretty.
Is It Really Too Expensive to Pay Adjunct Professors a Decent Wage? (No)
“Adjunct professors” are the McDonald’s workers of academia: poorly paid and highly disposable. Is raising their pay to (barely) middle class levels really too expensive? It’s all a matter of priorities.
Either College Kids Are Sexist OR Women Aren't Smart
A new study that examines millions of online reviews of college professors finds that either there are fewer brilliant women and black professors, or college kids are dumb. Will we ever know which is the case?
Christian University Claims Unions Are Against Its Religious Mission
Duquesne is a Catholic University in Pittsburgh with nearly 10,000 students. The school’s adjunct professors would like to unionize. Conveniently, Duquesne does not believe Jesus would be in favor of that.
Psycho Professor Stone Cold Failed the Whole Class
Damn, Texas A&M University at Galveston management professor Irwin Horwitz—you’re a wild motherfucker.
The 10 Best Student-Professor Sex Stories, Courtesy of Our Own Readers
We recently asked our readers to share their tales of hooking up with their college professors—a project inspired by Harvard’s recent ban on student-professor relationships. And, well, our readers delivered. Without further comment, here are their 10 best submissions. You can read the rest in the comments here. Missed…
MIT Says Famous Professor Was Sexually Harassing Students Online
MIT administrators are erasing links to Walter Lewin, an extremely popular, now-retired physics professor, after an internal investigation determined he had been sexually harassing at least one female student online.
A new study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology finds that adjunct professors in U.S. colleges are at unique risk of "depression, anxiety, and stress" due to their jobs. Why might that be?
San Francisco Pervert Professor Allegedly Filmed Students in Bathroom
The San Francisco Examiner reports that a San Francisco State University professor was charged with 15 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy after secretly filming students in his home bathroom.
Oberlin Professor Accuses Colleague of Murder Conspiracy
An Oberlin professor has accused another professor of trying to murder him. In response, the alleged would-be murderer is suing his accuser for sullying his good name. Life in academia can be killer.
Prof Who Wrote "Slavery Wasn't So Bad" Still Gainfully Employed
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans. He is also a man who's written that slavery "wasn't so bad." Interesting, no?
Ethics Professor May Have Broken Some Ethical Rules
Robby Burleigh, a 42 year-old Baton Rouge Community College professor of philosophy, biomedical ethics, and logic, is innocent until proven guilty. That said:
Recession Finally Reaches Law School Professors
Law school, long a cushy institution that charged steep prices in exchange for steeper rewards, is seeing its popularity crumble along with the job prospects of law school graduates. Now, it seems, the crisis's claws are sinking into the most vulnerable victims: law school professors.
A 'Big Brother'-Esque Snooping Program Tells Professors When Students Skip the E-Reading
What the internet giveth, the internet also taketh away.
Half-Naked Ivy League Prof Opens Quantum Physics Course with 9/11 Footage, Hitler
There is no (definitive) manual on How to Teach Quantum Physics, obviously, but one imagines that if such a manual existed it would likely recommend against opening your first lecture half-naked, curled into a fetal position while footage of Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and 9/11 play on the projector. And yet! Columbia…
The Forbes-College Professor War Is So On
How could a Forbes article that opened with "university professors have a lot less stress than most of us" go so wrong?
Yale Creates New, Even More Useless Law Degree
Since the recession hit, law school degrees have become so toxic and worthless that they are actually worth less than nothing, because not only do they take all of your money and leave in crushing debt but you can't even get a job with them any more and if you could the job would be horrible. So—how to make a law…
