{"id":5180,"date":"2015-10-27T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:51:33","slug":"professors-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2015\/10\/professors-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors in Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravenewfilms.org\/professorsinpoverty\" target=\"_blank\">Brave New Films<\/a>: PROFESSORS IN POVERTY<br \/>\nAn average of 51% of faculty are adjunct or working on a part-time only basis. 31% of those adjuncts live near or below poverty levels and are forced to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet. Astonishingly, some make as little as $12,000 annually; meanwhile college presidents are making on average salary of over $400, 000. The corporate model is destroying the integrity of our academic institutions and has to stop. Help us fight for adjuncts and their right to a living wage by sharing this video.  <\/p>\n<p>Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years, has a bachelor\u2019s degree, a master\u2019s degree, and a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty. <\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kbWFcqbefMs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Brave New Films: PROFESSORS IN POVERTY An average of 51% of faculty are adjunct or working on a part-time only basis. 31% of those adjuncts live near or below poverty levels and are forced to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet. Astonishingly, some make as little as $12,000 annually; meanwhile college presidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2156],"tags":[22670,3615,438247,2421,1063339,2254,1121,1572071,1247067,1572073,2276],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-corporate-university","tag-academic-capitalism","tag-academic-labor","tag-academic-labor-market","tag-adjuncts","tag-cdnpse","tag-contingent-labor","tag-higher-education","tag-labor","tag-sessionals","tag-the-corporate-university","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}