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Education

To Understand the High Cost of Colleges, Think of Them as Investment Banks

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

James McWilliams

Social Justice

Professor, Can You Spare a Dime?

Adjuncts on the edge resort to helping each other.

Alissa Quart

Social Justice

Adjunct Professors and the Myth of Prestige

Notes from 20 years of adjunct politics.

Henry Veggian

Economics

How Colleges Misspend Your Tuition Money

You know tuition is on the rise, but you keep hearing that professors aren’t paid fairly. Where’s the money going?

Ted Scheinman

Social Justice

The Professor Charity Case

PrecariCorps wants to draw attention to the plight of adjunct professors. But in the meantime, it's raising money to keep adjuncts well-fed and out of debt.

Alissa Quart

Economics

Survey: The State of Adjunct Professors

In our new survey, 62 percent of adjuncts say they make less than $20,000 a year from teaching, and 88 percent say working with students is their favorite part.

Bettina Chang

Education

Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?

For many universities and colleges, both public and private, it’s their most embarrassing secret—paying educated professionals minimum wage salaries with no benefits.

Ana Beatriz Cholo