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"Don't Stay in School, Kids"

American universities spend half a trillion dollars a year. Very little of that money goes to the people who do a huge part of the teaching: the adjunct professors, academia’s hidden underclass. They are telling us their stories. They’re not pretty.

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#AdjunctUnderclass series: #Academics Who Are Treated as "Less Than Janitors" | @HamiltonNolon @Gawker 

America’s well-manicured universities are supported by an entire academic underclass of very smart and very poorly paid people: the adjunct professors. They would like to tell you about the “insanely bleak” job that keeps academia chugging along.

We are publishing true stories from adjunct professors about the realities of their jobs and the inherent inequality of the higher learning industry. This is worth considering before you take out all those student loans.

Also in the The Academic Underclass series:

The Misery of Adjunct Professors Keeps Higher Education Booming

Your Broke Adjunct Professors Would Like a Little Solidarity, Please

True Stories From the Educated Underclass