[quote=sdrealtor]Just curious whether you were vocal in this position while still teaching at SDSU or whether it came after you retired? If so, did you find any support among your peers or is it more of a I know things are a mess but at least I’m getting mine too?[/quote]
Good question. I was adjunct faculty for 18 years, not full time or tenured. I quickly learned not to get too vocal, since hiring was “at will”, semester by semester. So yes, I made some noise, but stayed within the unwritten boundaries.
Incidentally, there is often tension between the tenured mandarins and the adjuncts, since the latter perform in a meritocracy, and the former includes the time-servers who could never make it in the private sector (along with many fine teachers too). The problem with our educational system at all levels is that there is too little correlation between teaching performance and pay.
