Life in academic poverty as an underpaid university teacher: “They just don’t want to pay”

Submitted by Tim Goral. “What is education?” Ruth Wangerin asks me, when I Skype the sociology professor at her home in New York. “Is education a good for its own sake? Is it a process of weeding people out? Or is the student a customer paying for certification and the adjunct is there to train them?” 
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