To: The New Jersey State House, The New Jersey State Senate, Governor Phil Murphy, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
For Adjunct Professor Justice
In the US, adjuncts teach over seventy percent of all US college level classes but typically work voicelessly without any participation and negotiating rights, without contractual security, and for shameless pay, often making around $1,800 at the community college level and $7,000 in Ivy League schools per class per semester. Adjuncts who work as full-timers do in community colleges get half the pay of the average worker in America, falling way below the poverty line and are thereby unable to support vital interests.
It is time that the dirty secret of higher education be exposed and democratically modified to meet greater equity and sound respect for our adjunct professors. Tell your representatives and state senate: "Write, finally, a horizontal contract to save the constitution of higher education and intitiate the rights of adjunct professors: establish worker participation, security, and greater monetary equity for adjuncts."
It is time that the dirty secret of higher education be exposed and democratically modified to meet greater equity and sound respect for our adjunct professors. Tell your representatives and state senate: "Write, finally, a horizontal contract to save the constitution of higher education and intitiate the rights of adjunct professors: establish worker participation, security, and greater monetary equity for adjuncts."
Why is this important?
This petition is to seek justifiable working conditions of adjuncts in professorship. Adjuncts are suprisingly some of the most oppressed workers in the US today, those who work without any job security and fall far below the poverty line. US higher education is jeopardized in general as students are treated as if they were packed up on the assembly line of edubusiness, their skills and efficacy of their education undermined.