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What’s a Fair Wage for Adjuncts?

December 15, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Audrey Williams June
December 7, 2017

The impending negotiations between the City University of New York's faculty union and administration may come down to a fundamental question: How much is adjunct labor worth?

The union's answer is $7,000. That's the minimum pay per three-credit course that it's seeking for the roughly 14,000 adjuncts it represents - about double the minimum that adjuncts there now earn per course.

Read the full article at The Chronicle of Higher Educations's website here.