To the Editor:
The deal for Joshua A. Boldt and others (“A Simple Spreadsheet Strikes a Nerve Among Adjuncts,” The Chronicle, February 19) was that he enrolled in a degree program for the love of the subject, not in pursuit of a teaching career. Nothing about a teaching career was promised to him.
Had he performed due diligence on the marketability of a master’s degree in English, he’d have learned there’s a glut in the market. He would have been advised of that by mentors in any responsible program. The fact that 70 percent of all sections are being taught by underpaid adjuncts may be a shame and is undoubtedly exploitive, but it is no secret. There will be no remedy to that sorry state of affairs until Mr. Boldt and others stop enrolling for one purpose and then, postdegree, unilaterally deciding that their degrees are an entitlement to a livelihood because they found the work pleasant.
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