But tenured profs have some power here and are almost never using it in service of their precarious colleagues.

The problem is the discrepancy between what adjuncts bring in ($120k) and what they are paid ($20k) and then the schools have the call to pester graduates for donations when they’re paying back $50k+ student loans.

Let us not also forget the 7 figure salary of the sports-ball coach; at the University level.

I disagree. Tenure track professors, particularly those who have tenure, have the means to fight this nonsense but either fail or refuse to do so. Calling for adjucts to not cultivate a division is basically saying, “Hey, don’t make us feel bad for ignoring the problem (at best). We don’t like feeling bad”. Yeah? …

I made the transition! It can be done. What I’ve found is a lot of the same skills that made you successful in academica are the same skills most companies are looking for in solid employees: time management, problem solving, and working with others. I have an English degree, so I feel you on the Humanities degrees…

Oh, holy shit. I think you’ll get snapped up, post-graduation. Archives and digital content management cross over really well with contemporary records management, which opens a lot of government and private company positions (even more if you’re familiar with gov docs). Large churches are also a great opportunity for…

I’m specializing in special libraries and archives because I already have a masters in history (sorry, I’m not great with kids). I’ve worked as an archivist before in a museum to fill in for someone when she was on maternity leave, and I’ve worked a ton with digital libraries and digital content. I have loads of…

And law schools. My old history program stopped asking me to talk to undergrads about what you can do with a history degree when I started telling them that they can use their history degree to get another degree that will eventually get them a job. (Law is another one. I went to school with lots of people who went on…

Adjuncts everywhere need to be unionizing. I know many part-time or non-TT faculty oppose this for various reasons or are afraid of retaliation, but I’ve worked at union and non-union schools and the difference is stark. At the unionized university where I teach right now, I make 30% more money than I did before, I…

I am so ready to leave this fucked up country.

Special libraries, archives, and museums, but I have lots of experience in digital libraries. I’ve worked as an archivist and in special libraries in the past, and I’m working in government documents while I’m in school now.

There is NOTHING stopping universities/colleges from paying adjuncts more than they do.

This is a huge problem and I hate it. I try to talk about it with my students as much as possible. They think we are paid a ton. I really feel like if they knew that the crazy debt they are going into was not actually going towards their educations AT ALL, they might get riled up enough to cause a stink. They are…

I clicked this link for the article.

ABSOLUTELY and it’s been reported right here https://jezebel.com/fathers-and-childless-women-in-academia-are-3x-more-lik-1758704068

This is me. I work at a small university in Oregon. The only reason I survive is because my husband secured a professorship. It’s important to understand the alienation going on here in addition to economic inequalities. While I teach in the english department, my “office” is across campus, in a small cubicle in a…

Adjuncts are, of course, far more likely to be female than tenured professors are.

Two things: Da Vinci was pretty gay, and artists don’t paint nudes because they’re horny or prefer people with their clothes off. Although I’m sure that was the reason for some artists, it’s certainly not why figure painting is a tradition for students and masters alike.

eta: yes, both points are super nitpicky. I…

That is a male torso with boobs tacked on.

I remember seeing an interesting theory that the Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s self portrait as a girl (it showed some interesting facial feature proportion analysis.)