Nov 12, 2019
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
In relation to Salvation is the Issue -- cz
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
She was on the tenure track, and then she wasn’t. She had a promising job lead, and then it wasn’t so promising. She was on her way to publishing, and then that fizzled. Meanwhile, her hopes and setbacks were compounded by an underlying reality that many adjuncts face: a lack of health insurance. She was a black woman in academia, and she was flying against a current. Some professors soar; adjuncts flap and dive and flap again—until they can’t flap anymore.
From 1993 to 2013, the percentage of underrepresented minorities in non-tenure-track part-time faculty positions in higher education grew by 230 percent. By contrast, the percentage of underrepresented minorities in full-time tenure-track positions grew by just 30 percent. Nearly 80 percent of faculty members were tenured or tenure-track in 1969. Now roughly three-quarters of faculty are nontenured.
The Human Cost of Higher Education's Adjunct Shift - The Atlantic
Most of this article, which when you click through is actually titled “The Death of an Adjunct,” is about the precarity of academic labor that contributed to the death of history scholar Thea Hunter. All that I can bear to quote are these dispassionate stats about the pervasive ‘adjunctification’ of academic work.
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
How adjuncting and adjunctigication of Higher Ed killed Thea Hunter
The Death of an Adjunct | The Atlantic Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.bald eagle in flight is elegance to behold.