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Academia severely mistreats adjuncts.(NEWSWATCH)
While part-time adjuncts teach up to 75% of credit hours at some schools, they receive low pay, few benefits, no job security and little respect. Most are women.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), Angelo-Gene Monaco called Wal-Mart a more honest employer of part-time workers than academia. Monaco is associate VP for human resources at the University of Akron.
Academia added more than 20,000 part-time adjuncts each year between 2003 and 2007. He said schools rely on them for cheap, disposable labor, citing one instructor in the St. Louis area who teaches eight freshman comp classes this fall at several schools for an average of $2,000 each.
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