Even as colleges’ use of adjunct faculty members grows, comprehensive national data about those instructors’ salaries and benefits remain scarce. One writing instructor is hoping to paint a clearer picture—and name names of institutions that treat professors off the tenure track well and those that treat them poorly—through a crowdsourcing project.
Josh Boldt, a writing instructor and education consultant at the University of Georgia, has set up a Google document to which he is asking adjunct instructors to contribute data about course pay, benefits, retirement policies, and contracts. In announcing his effort on his blog, Copy & Paste, Mr. Boldt said he had been prompted to collect the information by conversations at a national summit on adjunct faculty members, held last month in Washington, and by a recent essay by Michael Bérubé, the new president of the Modern Language Association.
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