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BY SIMONE PATHE
Mary-Faith Cerasoli is an adjunct professor of Spanish and Italian. She has a masters degree from Middlebury College. Shes also homeless.
The 53-year-old staged a one-woman protest Friday afternoon in front of the New York State Department of Education to bring attention to what she calls the abusive job of being an adjunct professor.
As the Making Sen$e series Adjunctivitis chronicled, adjuncts, who make up half of all college and university faculties, often drive hundreds of miles a week in between teaching gigs for an average pay of $2,000 to $3,000 per course. Medical insurance and benefits are luxuries unavailable to most of them.
Thats a problem for Cerasoli. She suffers from what she says is a life-threatening thyroid disease that has dug her financial hole ever deeper, adding unpaid medical bills to her student loans.
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(11,518 posts)Being an engineer with quite a bit of experience I've always had a silly idea that one day I might like to teach a couple of college courses in my specialty to pass along some of what I've learned. Then I found out what a friend of mine makes who's an Adjunct Professor.... changed my mind real fast. It's a damned sad joke what they get paid for all the work that they have to do.