For Adjuncts, Stitching Together Part-Time Jobs Into Full-Time Pay

by E Wayne Ross on June 12, 2009

The Chronicle: For Adjuncts, Stitching Together Part-Time Jobs Into Full-Time Pay

Washington — How can part-time adjunct professors cobble together enough jobs to get full-time pay, all while staying put at one institution?

By teaching and doing student-service work — such as developing courses, advising, and serving as a mentor — on a fee-per-service basis, said Treseanne Ainsworth, an adjunct who recently got a full-time non-tenure-track appointment at Boston College.