10. The Practical Guide to Adjunct Success and Advocacy: A Conversation with Jan Yager
In this episode of EdUp Provost, Dr. Gregor Thuswaldner speaks with Dr. Jan Yager, author of The Adjunct’s Handbook: A Survival Guide for Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Drawing on her experience teaching at 12 institutions and on interviews with 60 adjuncts, full-time faculty, and administrators, Yager explains what academic leaders often misunderstand about contingent faculty and what they can do about it. She and Thuswaldner discuss the stigma adjuncts face, the wide disparities in pay for the same course, and practical ways provosts can build community, from monthly virtual adjunct…
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