Where's my bottom quintile bros at?? #adjunctlife

Q: Why does AWP barely touch the crises in academia? "70% of the academic workforce is now contingent labor."

Q: Why does AWP barely touch the crises in academia?
"70% of the academic workforce is now contingent labor."
—from Betty Tuch's excellent Lit Mag News #adjunctlife

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Peer Review of a Nervous Breakdown by @joshdnd | Suno #Academia

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Ten infuriating songs about #Academia #AcademicLife #HigherED #AcademicStruggles #TenureTrack #AcademicBurnout #AdjunctLife

Only made $25 so far, and it’s alrredy Sunday. Monday will be here soon. Please help if you can—feeling a whole hell of a lot more vulnerable, both physically and financially, to start this term. #MutualAid #AdjunctLife #PleaseHelp 💕💸🙏

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Remember what Roxanne Gay said, few of us love teaching enough to teach a class for adjunct pay. #deathofhighered
#adjunctlife
#Adjuncts
#Adjunctpay
What percent of undergrads are taught by adjuncts? More than 50 percent.
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🎉 Syllabus done.
✅ Canvas site published.
⏰13 days before first class.
😅 Whew! No fire drill for me.

#adjunctlife #teaching

Don’t know why I’m up thinking about and brainstorming my College Comp syllabus when I’d rather be thinking about and brainstorming poem or screenplay ideas OR shit I wanna eat and drink when I’m a bit better and put thr hospital further behind me, but OK, #whatever #adjunctlife

Four-panel comic set outdoors in winter. Two adults wearing coats, scarves, and gloves stand outside holding cups of coffee and talking. Panel 1: One character says, “I’m telling you, he keeps a list of people he likes and dislikes…” Panel 2: The other character responds, “He’s got elves slaving away all year doing menial tasks for little or no pay…” Panel 3: The first character continues, “He always wears the same vest and he only shows up once a year.” Panel 4: The second character reacts with surprise and says, “Santa Claus is a professor!!” The first character replies, “Ho, Ho, Ho? It’s the null hypothesis!” The joke humorously compares Santa Claus to an academic, using traits associated with faculty work and research culture.

Adjunct professor by day.
Dissertation writer by night.
This is what academia will do to you in the final stretch — even Santa isn’t safe.
#AcademicHumor #DissertationLife #AdjunctLife

So proud of my communications students this Fall term 🍂🍁 Over 15 wks, these undergrads grew so much 🙏🏾 They learned to craft their words, create strong narratives & deliver powerful messaging 🙌🏽 Can’t wait to do it all again next semester! #HigherEducation #AdjunctLife

Just spent three hours completing online training for the college. Ask me about hazardous materials! Ask me about FERPA! Quick before it all fades away by next year. #adjunctlife

The Academic Machine Eats Our Labour Why the Knowledge Economy Runs on Unpaid Sweat

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#AcademicMachine

#KnowledgeLabour

#AcademicWork

#HigherEducation

#AcademicExploitation

#LabourOfLove

#PrecariousAcademic

#AdjunctLife

#AcademicBurnout

#AcademiaAndJustice

#RaceInAcademia

#GenderAndAcademia

#LabourStudies

#ScholarlyWork

The Academic Machine Eats Our Labour Why the Knowledge Economy Runs on Unpaid Sweat

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#AcademicMachine

#KnowledgeLabour

#UniversityLife

#AcademicWork

#HigherEducation

#AcademicExploitation

#LabourOfLove

#PrecariousAcademic

#AdjunctLife

#AcademicBurnout

#AcademiaAndJustice

#RaceInAcademia

#GenderAndAcademia

Canvas is out so I'm just staring up into the fluorescent lights at school A (where I have conferences with students about the assignment that they just turned in) and thinking about how I have to turn in midterm grades at school B. #adjunctlife

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I made it through grading 79 exams and now I regret choosing to have four of them this semester.

Unfortunately, I am not paid by the number of graded exams.

#adjunctlife

My second job pays me once more but too late, then they skip a period till the next short term starts. My first job paid me a half-check cause of the pay schedule and the start of classes. This was after one week with a half-check for the end of summer. #AdjunctLife

Back at it…adjunct life till retirement b/c retirement is out of reach…that’s academia!
Year 25…been back to teaching intro history classes & really love it! #academiclife #adjunctlife #firstdayofclasses

TRUST YOUR TEACHING FACULTY’S INSTINCTS AND EXPERTISE, FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!! #AdjunctLife

Enrollment woes at the local cc where I’ve been working, still have classes, just not all the classes…ah the life of an adjunct who’d really like to retire but can’t…you get me #academiclife #adjunctlife

There's not enough space on my computer to download video software so every week we get to play a game of: will my lecture save to the cloud or will I have to re-record it??? #AdjunctLife #digitalhumanities

I left my keys at home but it doesn't really matter - the only impact is I can't get into my office and, fortunately, I can hold office hours this morning in the adjacent program center (for a an academic initiative I have no connection to #adjunctlife) because all its staff are WFH in the summer

Having one of those ‘losing your job REALLY sucks’ days while muttering to myself about updating my CV, rewriting my cover letter, and prepping for the 5 (!) classes I somehow agreed to adjunct this fall.

Academia, you’re a trip. #AdjunctLife #AcademicTwitter

Last day on this campus. Transporting my borrowed articulated skeletons back to Bio. 😭😢😓 #AdjunctLife

We ran out of time because I decided on the fly to walk my class over to my office because it is in an illogical location (due to #adjunctlife) and there is a enormous construction project blocking most of central campus (because the regents only care about physical disruptions when it is a protest)

Maybe I'd boost my employability if I accurately complied with the typical university HR requirement to enter individually into a webform every one-semester or one-year adjunct position I've had since 1993, redundantly duplicating info on the CV. But would it be worth it? #adjunctlife

my office (which I share with two other contingent faculty members...technically, there are three desks in here but, functionally, there are just two) is located in a program center I am unaffiliated with and seems to have no one working for it during the summer #adjunctlife

Is the English Major Thriving or Facing Extinction in Today’s Universities?
#EnglishMajor #HumanitiesCrisis #HigherEd #LiberalArts #Education #UniversityLife #Literature #AcademicFunding #AdjunctLife #SaveTheHumanities

#Indeed quit categorizing business and human resources adjunct jobs as humanities adjunct jobs challenge. #Jobsearch #Adjunctlife #FullyFundTheHumanitiesYouCowards

Grading final exams, I feel I should write "Congrats on using ChatGPT so well!" #adjunctlife Really need to find another way to test asynchronously.

I’ve made $20 toward this so far. I really need $230 more in the next couple of days ($130 for the car maintenance), and then the remaining $1000 before month’s end. Have one class cancelled, it fucks up two months’ living expenses. #AdjunctLife