As national trends suggest university instructors are teaching more and being paid less, many are mobilizing to address issues of benefits and salaries. In many cases, they are organizing into unions,...

Compare wages, benefits and key statistics about adjunct professors at Chicago-area universities. Read more in our investigation, Adjunct Agony.

Wanda Evans-Brewer, an adjunct professor at DeVry University and Concordia University, is a Ph.D. on welfare. As some adjuncts in Chicago and across the country push to earn $15,000 per course, she...

As some adjunct professors push to earn $15,000 per course, here is what you need to know about adjuncts at DePaul and across the country: Adjuncts are defined as faculty paid to teach a specific...

Here is how to define various faculty members at universities and other key terms. Read more in our investigation, Adjunct Agony. Adjunct Faculty: “Adjunct faculty are faculty that are paid to teach...

We write this letter on behalf of DePaul’s student body to demand better treatment and livable wages for adjunct professors. It is inevitable that adjuncts’ wages affect us as students in our academics....

Just as any complex hierarchical system, DePaul University's faculty tiers are more than a simple categorization. There are several components that make up a faculty member's classification. The first...