S03E05 | Adjunct Life with Dr. Shyla Saltzman

Wait, isn't getting a PhD supposed to set you up with a cushy professor job? We talk to Dr. Shyla Saltzman about the increasing phenomenon of PhDs ending up in adjunct positions -- temporary, underpaid, underresourced teaching positions. This episode is about the stresses of the adjunct life, the corporatization of the university, as well as a unglamorous side of alt-ac jobs. After fun and laughter as we commiserate about shared experiences as people of color, Shyla gives us a deeply personal, honest account of her struggles after graduation. Together we discuss the conditions of precarity that threatens higher ed as well as the world around us, strikes and the #LIUlockout, and small victories.