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?
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?
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.
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
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
Hoooooly shit
Also lol@ the non discrimination bit, who do they think is going to apply for this
who do they think is going to apply for this
People who consider the role a status symbol or resume bullet point or payment for access to university resources, rather than a serious job. I’m old enough to remember adjuncts at the University of Texas who couldn’t speak English, occasionally didn’t know the material, routinely misgraded assignments, and were generally useless as TAs.
The positions were handed out to foreign transfer students in lieu of charging them graduate tuition. Or they were positions granted to the children of foreign dignitaries to fast-track them through the US immigration system.
They were Reason #1 why you really shouldn’t bother going to a flagship state school for your first two years of college. Weed-out classes and degree-required make-work classes were filled with Adjuncts like this. Absolutely ruinous for your GPA, they taught you nothing that you couldn’t get from a High School AP class or Online course, and they often just kinda sucked as human beings to boot.
How is that legal?
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.their need to eat or pay rent.
UCLA seeks applications for an Assistant Adjunct Professor on a without salary basis. Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position.
on a without salary basis
without salary
Slaves. You want slaves. You want someone to work for you and you don’t want to pay them. That’s what a slave is.
They’re unionbreakers looking for an unpaid scab to fill a position which should in any sane world be highly paid and they’re being extremely entitled about it.
But I think it’s overstating things to call it slavery. Slaves can’t say no, and in this case, like most volunteer roles there’s very little to motivate anyone taking the position to put up with any BS or not just deprioritise the role when other things come up in their lives. The usual anticapitalist “sure, I’m allowed to say no and starve in the streets what a free uncoerced choice” doesn’t really apply in this case because if you spend all your time working this job with your PHD and college level teaching experience making the University thousands of dollars every hour starving in the streets is where you will be :marx-joker:
