{"id":8370,"date":"2013-11-11T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/11\/obamacare-puts-the-screws-to-faculty-adjuncts\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:34:29","slug":"obamacare-puts-the-screws-to-faculty-adjuncts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/11\/obamacare-puts-the-screws-to-faculty-adjuncts\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Puts the Screws to Faculty Adjuncts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adjuncts are the peons of the academic world, the lowest men and women on the collegiate totem pole, the bottom-most rungs of the ladder of higher education — pick your metaphor.  But a consequence of ObamaCare, intended or not, is that many are now worse off than they were before.  There is some irony in this considering that Obama himself was once an adjunct professor of law.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Because they are paid so little, adjuncts must teach many courses to make a living.  But the ACA  requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance if they work an average of 30 hours per week including work both within and outside the classroom.  Finding the financial burden too heavy to bear, many colleges have simply restricted the number of courses adjuncts can teach.  The result is that the lowly adjunct must shuttle between different institutions, wasting time and gasoline, to keep his number of courses the same. The top-down initiative that was intended to help the poorly paid part-timers ends up making them worse off.  Central planning in action.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more, see this <\/a>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: In Praise of a Lowly Adjunct<\/a><\/span>
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Adjuncts are the peons of the academic world, the lowest men and women on the collegiate totem pole, the bottom-most rungs of the ladder of higher education — pick your metaphor.  But a consequence of ObamaCare, intended or not, is that many are now worse off than they were before.  There is some irony in … Continue reading “ObamaCare Puts the Screws to Faculty Adjuncts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}