The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA seeks applications for an Assistant Adjunct Professor on a without salary basis. Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position.
Responsibilities will include: teaching according to the instructional needs of the department. Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry, or equivalent discipline and have significant experience and strong record in teaching chemistry or biochemistry at the college level.
The University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscriminatioHarassmentAffirmAction
This shit is fucking insane. How does this even happen?
The perks are, according to the replies, that you get to supervise students and do research officially with the university I guess. I think the strategy from a potential hire’s side is that you teach 3-4 classes as a lecturer, get some sort of barely livable wage, formally associate yourself with ucla in this way by teaching a free course, and hope that lands you a real professorship elsewhere eventually. So essentially it’s literally paying in exposure. Now, co-advising a ucla phd thesis probably actually does help your CV quite a bit, and maybe lands you a tenure track position at a small college, but ofc still exploitative as fuck.
I tried to explain the notion that a professor of physics should attempt to perform better pedagogy if their students are not doing well, and the entire sub agreed that actually offering office hours that no one comes to is as much as they should should have to do, thus it’s the fault of the students. I fucking hate those people.
This shit is fucking insane
Those were my exact thoughts when I read it as well. I honestly thought it was a joke. Also:
PhD
experience teaching at college level
3-5 references
For an unpaid position? Are they fucking high?
Everyone was told to get as much education as possible and not think about how market economics would effect that.
I work in a warehouse with not one, but TWO people who have Ph.Ds
There are a lot of people who are very passionate about their field and want nothing more than to teach and do research. University administrators and a lot of older professors with tuition use these people basically as slaves, making them pull off insane hours without any compensation. They do this by promising them that if they work hard enough, they’ll eventually get a full-time job as a professor and actually start getting paid, but in reality, these people generally just get sucked dry off their passion and end up working in a gas station.
promising them that if they work hard enough, they’ll eventually get a full-time job… and actually start getting paid, but in reality, these people generally just get sucked dry off their passion and end up working in a gas station.
Sounds like being a musician tbh
