Cat Herding and Windmill Chasing
by Lee Shainen EVER SEE THAT commercial about herding cats? It reminds me of trying to get adjuncts to organize. Faculty members, in general, are an independent and eccentric lot. Off the top of my head, I’d say they are right up there with quirky inventors and solitary gold miners on the wacko scale. But adjuncts are not only weird (imagine going to college for six to ten years and then picking a profession that pays less than the national poverty rate and provides no benefits, or that pays a decent wage and benefits, but is a complete dead end); they […]