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Reply to "Academic Serfdom at UNA"

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Originally posted by Aude Sapere:
What about the use of adjuncts in the liberal arts? How are the art historians supposed to eat, keep a roof over their heads and pay back their student loans? What about the specialist in the English Civil War? How about those who teach sociology or anthropology? Go start up a sociology practice? A history practice? Their practice is their profession, which needs to be compensated at par, not living in fear of one of the three adjunct contracts upon which one friend of mine depends will go away.


Perhaps the liberal arts folks you mentioned should move to a place where their specialty is in demand if they are starving here as adjuncts. As mentioned in another post, they should know that there's not a huge demand for some of these fields. And what demand there is, is probably concentrated in larger cities or at bigger universities. That should have figured in their career decision. It's about like a phys ed major complaining about not being able to find a job at a culinary school.

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