You'd be wrong. Again. These 4500 adjuncts that made under $20k work at Georgia's technical colleges.
Thanks for the emphasis. Technical colleges are not universities, they are basically vocational schools. I do not even think most people teaching there have PhDs.
The very first 5 names on the "ADJUNCT FACULTY-APO" list, in alphabetical order:
ABDEL-HAFEZ,BRENDA D - Mathematics
She is actually employed by a university, but the website lists her position not as "adjunct professor" but as "Instructor". This thread is about people who have formal qualifications to be professor, i.e. have a PhD degree, but are only employed as adjuncts and make very little. Her
Linkedin account says she only has a Master's Degree in "Math Education", not even master's in real math. Thus, she does not qualify for the purposes of this thread. We also do not know what kind of courseload she took on.
ABNEY,LAURIE A - Health Information Technology
At $800 we can safely assume this was a side gig for her. She was also employed at a tech. college in the boonies, not at a university and we know nothing about her educational background. In fact, if
this the the same person, she works at a dentist's office and has moved out of state (to Michigan) anyway.
ABU-HALAWEH,NAEL MOHAMMED - Information Technology
Congratulations! An actual PhD this time, and making next to nothing. Except this is his side gig (he probably teaches a class once a year or so) as he is also department head at Al Quds Open University.
ACHIONYE,JONATHAN - Physics
Actually makes slightly more than $20k. He is also at a technical college, not university and I could not find his education, although the
college website lists him as "Adjunct Faculty General Studies - Department: General Studies/Learning Support" (i.e. glorified tutor), not a physics instructor, let alone professor. I doubt he has a PhD even. He and his wife also seem to own an
eye clinic, so this would qualify as "side gig" too.
ACREE,COURTNEY N - Health Sciences
Another one for whom this is a side gig. She owns a chiropractic office as her main source of income.
So none of these people fulfill the original parameters of this thread: PhD (i.e. qualified for tenure track position) adjunct professors employed by a university on a course-by-course basis and doing it as a main source of income because they cannot get a tenure track position.
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