Tag: adjunct labor

Adjuncted to Death

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 4, 2015

You may have heard about the Duquense University adjunct who died in dire poverty in 2013. Well it’s happened again, this time to a long-term adjunct at Seattle University. When visitors walked into the dilapidated boardinghouse where Dave Heller lived, the smell alone could transport them back to their college days. “It smelled like grad […]

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Adjunctification

By Erik Loomis

On April 14, 2015

It sucks to be a department chair and have to hire adjuncts in a situation you know and they know is exploitative. As a department chair at Columbia University, I am compelled to hire many people on a

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Adjuncts

By Erik Loomis

On March 12, 2015

Let me start by saying that I’ve hesitated to write this post for a few days because I don’t want to come across as that professor who doesn’t get the reality of life for the armies