I am an adjunct whore.

From semester-to-semester, I do tricks, my adjunct legs spread wide, willing to settle for a pittance for my services.

I am cheap. I am expendable. I am powerless.

Should I make waves, I will be dismissed, for the next adjunct whore is standing in line, waiting for my crumbs. I will do whatever academic tricks my administration wants me to do, no matter how repugnant.

I am also a forever-adjunct. My university/college/tech school has decided, “Why buy the full package when classes can be serviced for practically nothing?”

I do not expect sympathy—I have made my own academic bed, my adjunct whoredom sealed. You see, I actually believed my chair when years ago he/she “hinted” that I would likely be promoted to a real job. Good intentions, change of administration, a too-familiar story.

Remember this, adjunct whores:

You are in this alone.

Your full-time colleagues and fellow adjunct whores, who are too busy sucking up, will not help you. We are all too busy looking after Number One.

Love academe, but trust no one, especially administrators.

Until I retire, I shall remain an adjunct whore.


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Calling All Adjunct Whores: Your Horror Story

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Calling All Adjunct Whores: Your "Fuzzy" and "Warm" Story

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Byrnn from Rate Your Sudents Does "The Right Thing"

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Bryn from Rate Your Students regarding awarding A's and B's to students who haven't earned high grades:
...I try to hold myself to the principle that it is better in the long run to do what is right, rather than what is easy or expedient. I have never put much stock into course evaluations anyway.
Hmmmmm...I'm pretty sure that Brynn is not an Adjunct Whore.

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