Going Broke, But Teaching Economics

by Don Rich His life as an adjunct collapsed with bitter irony one day when his dean called him into his office to tell him that a colleague had caught him sleeping in the faculty lounge. The dean dressed him down viciously, and then, despite his always having done as he was told and taught everywhere asked, cut his classes from three to one, then none. And all for helping a deaf girl. When he was first hired to teach at the college, he had been so excited. Before that, he had put his teaching career on hold to take care of his children—a […]