一想到美国的大学,大多数人首先想到哈佛麻省理工这些高大上的学校,
想到那些在这个公开课那个公开课口吐莲花的大牛,
但有谁知道,
美国大学的天空主要是由临时工撑起的?
看段文字:
Adjuncts, also known as contingent faculty, teach on a contract basis, often booked one semester at a time. It's hard to count them precisely, since the lines between different kinds of academic jobs aren't always clean, but contingent faculty—including part-timers, non-tenure track full-timers, and graduate assistants—
number well over a million and now make up 75 percent of higher ed faculty. Part-timers alone are
762,000, or just over half, at last count.
出处:
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/05/adjunct-faculty-now-majority-organize-citywide
75%?你的天!3/4的天空啊!
这些兼职教授年收入大概100个二百五美元,仅仅超过美国政府规定的四口之家贫困线。
对于这些人来说,读书不仅可能没有改变命运,反而被命运改变了。