For those bemoaning the systematic devaluation of university teaching as a career and a calling, UCLA just put a hard number to the complaint.
The number is zero. That's how much one of the nation's premier public universities said it would pay for an assistant adjunct professor in the chemistry department.
In the job posting that appeared this month on UCLA's internal recruitment website, the university specified that "applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position." In other words: no salary, no benefits.
