adjunct faculty
Non-tenured college teacher
Adjunct faculty are instructors hired by colleges and universities on a part-time or temporary basis, typically to teach specific courses without the job security or benefits of tenured professors.
The arrangement offers institutions flexibility and lower costs, while adjuncts often piece together work at multiple schools: She's adjunct faculty at three different community colleges.
The term sometimes carries connotations of exploitation, as adjuncts may earn far less per course than their full-time colleagues.
- contingentConditional or representative group
- part-timeLimited work schedule
- temporaryLimited in duration
- sessionalOf official gathering periods
- professorSenior university teacher
job insecurity · teaching · gig · side hustle · lecturer · hourly · contract · salary disparities · precarious · visiting · healthcare access · work-life balance · budget allocation · publish or perish · student engagement · workload distribution · workshops · department
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- higher educationuniversity, college, degree, diploma, graduate school
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- College Policytuition caps, federal funding, state funding, financial aid, student aid
- economics departmentprofessors, department head, chair, graduate students, PhD candidates
- Facultyprofessor, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, lecturer
adjunct facultytenured faculty
Professors with guaranteed employment
tenured professor · full professor · distinguished professor · endowed chair · department chair
adjunct facultytenured faculty
Professors with guaranteed employment
full professors · tenured · distinguished professors · department chairs · university professors