by Greg Beatty

Any adjunct faculty member knows how hard the adjunct life is. Besides the challenge of living on an income that starts low then fluctuates according to each semester’s enrollment, there’s the anxiety of not knowing if you have a position at all, even if you’ve taught at the school for years. Since adjuncts often have to teach at more than one school to make enough to survive, it’s probably all you can do to make it through the semester.

Now imagine that you’re not just scrambling to make enough money to get by, or plugging away in hopes of landing one of those rare full-time positions. Imagine you’re also publishing your own work, editing an academic journal—and working to change not just your own situation, but that of all adjuncts in your state, and eventually, academia. Now add one more impossible thing before breakfast: imagine that you are, however slowly, winning.

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