VCU adjunct professors rally for fair pay
Adjunct professors at VCU are organizing a rally to demand a living wage of $65,000 of the university.
By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff
Posted at 11:10 AM, Apr 26, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-26 11:10:58-04
RICHMOND, Va. Monday, a group of VCU instructors will be holding a rally to demand that the university pay professors a living wage.
Rose Szabo is an adjunct instructor, and one of the organizers of the march.
She said VCU adjuncts have been organizing to get a living wage since around 2017.
Szabo said due to the cost of living going up in Richmond, the annual salary they re hoping for is $65,000 a number they came up with through MIT s living wage calculator.
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Members of VCU Adjuncts Organizing for Fair Pay marched through VCU s campus Thursday, calling on the university to adequately compensate adjunct faculty for their work. (Photo: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza/VPM)
Adjunct professors at Virginia Commonwealth University are calling for better pay and benefits. A group of about 20 professors, students and other members of the community gathered on campus Thursday to share their demands.
The group gathered outside of the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art before marching through campus towards the office of VCU President Michael Rao.
Currently, an adjunct with a full course load of teaching only makes about $20,000 per year, at just over $1,000 per credit. They’re asking for an increase to $3,000 per credit.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What if Wednesday Addams had been sent away to boarding school when she was little? Would she remember all the secrets of her monstrous family? Would she remember why, of all of them, she was the one so dangerous that she had to be banished?
This is the best way to describe the premise of Rose Szabo s debut novel,
What Big Teeth though the Zarrin family is both much stranger and more dour than the affable Addamses.
Eleanor Zarrin hasn t been home to her family s ramshackle mansion in Maine since her grandmother, the matriarch, sent her away to boarding school as a punishment for some terrible mishap that Eleanor can t remember clearly. There are a lot of things that Eleanor can t quite remember, and many family secrets that she has never understood.
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