Margaret Mary Vojtko , who taught at a university for 25 years , died in poverty . The dirty little secret is that higher education is staffed with an insufficiently resourced , egregiously exploited , contingent `` new faculty majority . '' Gary Rhoades : Adjunct professors are paid very little and have no benefits . He says the dirty secret in higher education is that adjuncts are used a lot . Rhoades : The average adjunct salary was $45,000 last year.
Margaret Mary Vojtko , who taught at a university for 25 years , died in poverty . Gary Rhoades : Adjunct professors are paid very little and have no benefits . He says the dirty secret in higher education is that adjuncts are used a lot . Rhoades : The average adjunct salary was $45,000 last year.