“It’s time to take back our departments and show some respect and dignity to our teaching colleagues,” Mr. Boldt told the audience at the presidential forum. The first step is to offer contracts to non-tenure-track faculty members, he said. “The other part of the equation is simple: Adjuncts should be paid a living wage for their work. If universities are going to employ adjuncts with a full-time course load, those adjuncts should be paid accordingly.” The Modern Language Association has pushed for around $6,800 as the going rate paid to teach a standard, three-credit course. That far exceeds what most non-tenure-track instructors receive, as the Adjunct Project has documented. “Thousands and thousands of our colleagues are being horribly mistreated,” Mr. Boldt said during his talk. That ought to worry the tenured too, he argued. Relying so much on non-tenured labor, colleges are “designing departments that are built on a foundation of sand and have no bargaining power.”

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by Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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