'It’s reached a tipping point in terms of trying to maintain this system with people who are being underpaid and to some degree underused.' Part-time professors explain how becoming hourly workers has 'exposed the problem with the whole system'
At several universities with strong Hollywood ties, adjuncts have become hourly workers, with some saying the move short-changes students and undercuts staffers"who are being underpaid and to some degree underused."
The change was made to keep the university in line with California labor law and, theoretically, at least, to pay adjunct professors for all the hours they work. And the reclassification came with a slight pay bump for most, a nice incentive to deal with the headache of logging in- and out-of-class hours.
, meaning that professors would make $23,364 a year before taxes if they teach three courses a semester . Another Dodge College professor, who preferred to remain anonymous, called and sent emails to Gov. Newsom's office when she learned of her reclassification and its decrease of interterm pay for part-time professors. "I said in my email to him that 'The very thing you said you vetoed it for is what you caused, substandard pay,'" she says. "It's caused a lot of havoc.
Pfeiffer says in response to these concerns that the Chapman employment period "is sort of the standard [part-time] contract, but we want to compensate people for all the hours they work." Professors should report all hours they work and continue to seek pre-approval for overtime, he adds.
"LMU values its part-time faculty, and offers competitive pay and benefits for those employees," Loyola Marymount said in a statement.
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