To: The United States House of Representatives

Increase Adjunct Professor's Pay

Pay college teachers for teaching.

Why is this important?

Over half of all colleges and universities use adjunct professors to teach America's students. These teachers make very little money, many work full time and most work one or two other jobs in order to continue teaching. I work full time at a community college teaching sociology and make $14,400 a year. I have to work nights and week-ends at other jobs to continue to teach. At my college, our Spanish teacher, with a PhD, works nights and weekends as a bartender. We are not considered teachers but contract workers; our "offiices" are cubicles in the library. Why would our students ever want to be teachers?