Far from the comfort of an ivory tower, the world of academia has led many Bay Area part-time college instructors into secret lives of hardship. Brad Balukjian is an adjunct biology instructor at Laney College in Oakland. He has a Ph.D and earned just under $25,000 from teaching in 2017. To survive at age 36 in the Bay Area, he rents a room with a senior couple in Alameda… Hai Nguyen teaches six classes between five campuses in three South Bay college districts. He works every day and often grades more than 200 student papers during each test cycle — something he says he is not compensated for. On the weekends, Nguyen works at a supermarket.

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by Ted Andersen, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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