Spoonman
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Noy only in colleges, but in businesses across america. Obamacare is going to kill many full time jobs the way iy was written.
There?s Something Sneaky Going on at Colleges Across America
..Theres Something Sneaky Going on at Colleges Across America
Doug Wright was a highly respected and dearly loved adjunct professor who taught humanities courses for many years at several colleges in Utah. As a so-called part-time faculty member who had the same responsibilities to students as any full-time faculty member, he was given only temporary assignments, sub-professional pay, and was not eligible for health insurance. When he was diagnosed with cancer in May 2009, he spent his life savings on treatment.
A close friend, Paul Babin, made a film about his struggle. The film, The Place Beneath, was an appeal to the country to make health care accessible to all people who need it.
In an epilogue to the film, Babin describes a party that Doug and his friends held in early November 2009. The film had found a home on the internet, and as he celebrated six months of a hard-fought fight, Doug was to learn that Vice President Joe Biden had seen the film and had been moved to write to him expressing his thanks. The day after the party, Doug also learned that the Affordable Care Act was soon to become law.
Four years later, higher education has failed to learn Doug's eloquent lesson. An alarming number of colleges are not extending healthcare to the faculty who constitute the majority of the teaching professionals on their campuses and who are educating the majority of the students (usually the most vulnerable remedial and first-year students).
Instead, these colleges are reducing "part-time" faculty members' assignments. Because faculty are not hourly workers, this is meant to guarantee that these professors will not be eligible for employer-provided healthcare. It will also reduce these professors' incomes just when they will be responsible for purchasing their own insurance under the new law. Only one institution in the country, Allegheny Community College, has declared its intention to raise adjunct wages while reducing workload in order to compensate for the lost income.
There?s Something Sneaky Going on at Colleges Across America
..Theres Something Sneaky Going on at Colleges Across America
Doug Wright was a highly respected and dearly loved adjunct professor who taught humanities courses for many years at several colleges in Utah. As a so-called part-time faculty member who had the same responsibilities to students as any full-time faculty member, he was given only temporary assignments, sub-professional pay, and was not eligible for health insurance. When he was diagnosed with cancer in May 2009, he spent his life savings on treatment.
A close friend, Paul Babin, made a film about his struggle. The film, The Place Beneath, was an appeal to the country to make health care accessible to all people who need it.
In an epilogue to the film, Babin describes a party that Doug and his friends held in early November 2009. The film had found a home on the internet, and as he celebrated six months of a hard-fought fight, Doug was to learn that Vice President Joe Biden had seen the film and had been moved to write to him expressing his thanks. The day after the party, Doug also learned that the Affordable Care Act was soon to become law.
Four years later, higher education has failed to learn Doug's eloquent lesson. An alarming number of colleges are not extending healthcare to the faculty who constitute the majority of the teaching professionals on their campuses and who are educating the majority of the students (usually the most vulnerable remedial and first-year students).
Instead, these colleges are reducing "part-time" faculty members' assignments. Because faculty are not hourly workers, this is meant to guarantee that these professors will not be eligible for employer-provided healthcare. It will also reduce these professors' incomes just when they will be responsible for purchasing their own insurance under the new law. Only one institution in the country, Allegheny Community College, has declared its intention to raise adjunct wages while reducing workload in order to compensate for the lost income.
