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> [Harvard] also denies that she was fired, saying she “was offered the chance to continue as a part-time adjunct lecturer, and she chose not to do so.” I hav
by karaterobot 3y ago
> [Harvard] also denies that she was fired, saying she “was offered the chance to continue as a part-time adjunct lecturer, and she chose not to do so.”
I have not read her filing, or followed her specific research, so I have no opinion about the possible merits or conspiracy theories regarding winding down her project. But, that statement by Harvard is suspicious. You take someone who is high profile, doing their own research, and offer them basically an insulting part time job (sorry to my adjunct lecturer friends, you know what I mean) and say "well, we didn't fire her, it was her choice." It would be like having a Director level position at a company, and being told your department was shutting down, but you could stay on as a part time contractor if you want. You just soft-fired her and tried to give yourself cover.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoYeah, this is called "constructive dismissal" in the real world.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoI don't know how it would be at a Harvard school, but all the adjunct professors I have ever known (working for large, but not ivy-league universities) were making significantly less than the part-time software contractors I have known.
- teachrdan 3y agoI went from being an adjunct instructor at a California community college to a software engineer. Now I earn more in a month than I used to make in a year. And the more prestigious a school, the worse the pay in a lot of cases. Like I made more at my CC than I would have made teaching at UC Berkeley, which is by some measures the #15 university in the US!