WRONG! Most professors are only part time professors, who are barely making ends meets. These are the people who are educating the future and they should be able to make a living themselves.
According to the article 9 Reasons Why Being An Adjunct Faculty Member is Terrible adjunct faculty are the part time professors who are protesting in gaining more hours, pay and benefits.
Much of these professors have had an enormous pay check cut that even some of them are living off of welfare to do the job that they love. These pay cuts are unacceptable. The majority of professors at colleges are these part time professors trying to make a living too.
In the article mention above there are several reasons as to why adjunct professors pay affects the students. For adjunct professors to be able to afford living need to teach on average about twenty classes a year. With that amount of work as a professor there is very little time for office hours for the students and the quality of time put into the students' assignments are less. If the adjunct professors had a higher wage, there would be no need for the professor to teach that many classes. Which would allow for better quality time on their students' work.
These professors are doing a job that they love with consequences in their home life. The affect on these professors also affects the students in the college. There is a spiral affect that branches out to several different avenues. The adjunct professors are the ones who are teaching future generations, why not give them a higher wage?
Why not give them a higher wage? Because then the money would have to come from somewhere else. Like an administrator's salary. Or new dorms. Or a new climbing wall.
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