I think this is the biggest issue I have outside of the low wages. I adjunct at a low income minority private university where my students have a lot of external factors affecting them. I had a student on probation. A student who did not have bus fare. A student who was a mom of two. They were all under the age of 20 years old. I needed to set time aside to address their limitations and how I can help them overcome them but it took me taking extra time out of my schedule to be able to do so. Otherwise they would have dropped out or failed.

I think that the is possible and we could see it at more progressive schools. It is just like the banking industry, one bank got rid of overdraft fees and slowly we are seeing major banks do away with the fees as well. All it takes is for one brave institution and another to change the landscape of things.

I was fortunate to have some office space in my first adjunct posting but it was shared which was an added stressor. A lot of times we taught at the same time so we wanted to use the single office at the same time. I stopped using it and just prepped at work. This again made me use my own time for work. I was making minimum wage already so it was truly for the love of the profession.

I think this conversation needs to be had more because we adjuncts are in the majority and have the leverage. The small amount of full time faculty would not be able to accommodate the extra classes if there was an adjunct walk out.