Tell Your Adjunct Story
Tell Your Adjunct Story
The Part-Time Faculty Association is compiling stories
about our lives as adjuncts -- how hard it is to make ends meet,
the challenges and situations we face as part-time faculty, etc.
Read USF Adjunct Stories
So, please take a moment now -- and share
"A story or example of a challenge in my life as an adjunct"
(or what my life is like -- or a similar theme)
Share your story on the story form: https://goo.gl/forms/qGq5L0Apk7nPuZLE3
or send your story via email to stories@usfptfa.org.
About 50 words (75 max)
If you like, you may,
Upload a photo of yourself or a photo of yours that illustrates the situation in your story [highly encouraged]
(please: no Internet images, no images of students or others without their permission).
Upload a personal video testimonial (15 to 60 seconds).
Stories will be posted online and used on posters, so indicate if you prefer to remain anonymous.
Questions? send to stories@usfptfa.org
We're posting these on the PTFA Facebook page and will use these stories to help people understand how difficult it is to live and maintain a career as "contingent" faculty at USF. We've found adjunct stories to be particularly helpful in communicating to administration during contract negotiations the need for improvements in salary, job security, health care premiums, and more. Your story is crucial in helping us move forward with negotiations.
Need some inspiration?
Stories from Santa Clara U's Adjuncts and Lecturers, organizing a union at SCU (stories on the front page change every 20 seconds): https://scufacultyunited.org/
CNN: Stories from underpaid teachers: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/10/us/denver-teacher-strike-multiple-jobs/index.html
She's one car breakdown away from living in a camper van
He drives Lyft after school and has multiple roommates
She hasn't had a savings account in 9 years of teaching
"A Contingent Life: The Life of Adjunct Faculty": https://archive.org/details/cabesc_000276
created by PTFA VP Sue Bae's in a Digital Storytelling workshop in Menlo Park with Berkeley's Story Center; available through the Internet Archive.
So, now let's hear your Adjunct Story!
"A story or example of a challenge in my life as an adjunct" (or what my life is like -- or a similar theme)
Story form: https://goo.gl/forms/qGq5L0Apk7nPuZLE3
or send your story via email to stories@usfptfa.org.
"A Contingent Life: The Life of Adjunct Faculty"
created by Sue Bae 2018
The Story Center's Digital Storytelling workshop in Menlo Park