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Isn't being a university lecturer a full-time job? How can they also be lecturing at another college?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
Isn't being a university lecturer a full-time job? How can they also be lecturing at another college?
- kevinventullo 5y agoIn general, no. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjunct_professor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjunct_professor
- stonemetal12 5y agoIt used to be, but has been trending away from that for a while.
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoThey almost all have a second job. >A 2015 survey found that 62 percent of adjuncts earned less than $20,000 a year. https://economichardship.org/2019/03/a-bigger-scandal-at-colleges-underpaid-professors/ https://economichardship.org/2019/03/a-bigger-scandal-at-col...
- IggleSniggle 5y agoSadly, in the US, even the “tenure track” full-time professors are seldom full-time lectures. Their most valued contributions are: - obtaining research grants - department administration - image management They also sometimes teach courses, but more often than not, that duty can be given to a combination of adjunct professors and “graduate teaching assistants,” ie doctoral students. Much of it I’m okay with organizationally except for the money/workload balance. It’s a race to the bottom to overwork and underpay for teaching duties.