{"id":5300,"date":"2009-03-02T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2009-03-02T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:35:36","slug":"no-tenure-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/no-tenure-no-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tenure? No Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v55\/i26\/26b01101.htm\">No Tenure? No Problem.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to make $100,000 a year as an adjunct English instructor<\/p>\n<p>By DOUGLAS W. TEXTER<\/p>\n<p>I recently defended my dissertation in English at a land-grant institution in the Midwest. Our department&#8217;s national reputation plunges every year as the new hires get weirder and their expertise more esoteric. Ph.D. degrees from our department, unless you&#8217;re female or a minority, don&#8217;t provide much value in the marketplace. Even if you do fit into one of those desirable categories, you&#8217;re probably screwed and headed to a $40,000-a-year job \u2014 much less if you get one of those stunningly low-paid, visiting-professor gigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: No Tenure? No Problem. How to make $100,000 a year as an adjunct English instructor By DOUGLAS W. TEXTER I recently defended my dissertation in English at a land-grant institution in the Midwest. Our department&#8217;s national reputation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/no-tenure-no-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2421,1288944,1288956,1288962],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contingent-labor","tag-adjuncts","tag-contingent-labor","tag-salaryeconomic-benefits","tag-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}