May 2, 2010
Plight of Adjunct Faculty Needs More Attention From Foundations
The nonprofit world has its own caste systems, in which top leaders get high salaries, lavish perks, and special status, while people who do the real work in carrying out charitable missions receive poor pay, work under difficult conditions, and are not accorded the respect they deserve.
Nowhere is this situation as far-reaching as in higher education, which employs more than 580,000 part-time faculty members, known as adjuncts, who are paid far lower wages than their full-time
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