Comment on We are not the same
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 7 hours agoDid you go to college? If so, I am very surprised you've never heard of adjunct professors, professors of practice, or visiting lecturers.
Comment on We are not the same
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 7 hours agoDid you go to college? If so, I am very surprised you've never heard of adjunct professors, professors of practice, or visiting lecturers.
udon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.
Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn’t really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.
Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn’t complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it’s not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you’re full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that’s the exception.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
I'm not going to disclose my background for privacy reasons, but regardless of the reasons behind such positions, they exist and are commonplace.