Paid as little as a couple of thousand dollars for each semester-long course, hundreds of thousands of people with doctorates or multiple master’s degrees are earning near-poverty wages working as adjunct professors… Growing contingency in the ranks of college instructors, says Daniel Maxey, co-director of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success at the University of Southern California, is a result of “economic changes such as dwindling public resources allocated to fund higher education, rising corporate influence in the way institutions are managed [and] demands of growing enrollments and access to higher education,” among other factors. The fallout of these changes travels beyond adjunct’s own financial stability. Research has shown that the quality of instruction declines as teaching work is shifted from full time to adjunct professors.

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by Seth Freed Wessler, NBC News.

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