Workbook
The Adjunct's Survival Workbook
Teaching 4 Classes at 3 Schools for Less Than a Living Wage
The work is real. The institution's investment in you is not. Name that gap before it names you.
For the adjunct faculty member who loves teaching and needs a clear-eyed guide for deciding whether to stay or go.
The Name It First Experience
Adjunct faculty teach the majority of college courses while earning wages that routinely fall below the poverty line — no benefits, no office, no security. This is a structural reality, not a personal failure. This workbook gives you a framework for assessing your situation honestly and building a deliberate plan — whether that means organizing, negotiating, transitioning, or staying with open eyes. The output is not a complaint. It is The Adjunct's Survival Agreement.
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Sample questions
- What do you teach for — and is that reason still enough to sustain what the job costs?
- What is the honest accounting of what staying is giving you and what it is taking?
- What would it take for this work to be sustainable — and do you believe that's possible?
Research basis
Burnout and Engagement research (Maslach, Leiter) identifies resource inadequacy and lack of fairness as the primary drivers of burnout — both are structural features of adjunct employment. Moral Injury research (Shay, Litz) provides a framework for the specific distress of doing work you believe in under conditions that violate your values. Research on contingent faculty labor (Kezar, Maxey / American Federation of Teachers) documents the scale and institutional logic of adjunctification. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Hayes) provides the values-clarification methodology that underlies the Agreement.
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