Hoeller and Collins, Dr. Keith Hoeller and Doug Collins Op-ED Shows Unjust Treatment of Washington State "Adjunct" College Teachers, Seattle Times, Oct. 23, 2018

 

"The Seattle Times just published our op-ed on the city's Proposition 1, which will pay for free tuition to the Seattle Colleges.  Doug Collins and [Dr. Keith Hoeller] have pointed out the irony of paying tuition for high school students while the adjuncts are earning poverty-level wages.
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"No free tuition until Seattle College teachers are paid living wages" Originally published October 23, 2018 at 3:05 pm

If Seattle is willing to tax property owners to subsidize free college tuition, it should insist the Seattle Colleges abandon their two-tiered salary structure and adopt a career-friendly faculty pay system.

By Keith Hoeller and Doug Collins

Special to The Times

Given the growing economic inequality in our country, it is understandable that the idea of free college tuition is catching on. Both Tennessee and New York have enacted it, and now Seattle’s Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy will, if passed on Nov. 6, offer free tuition at all four Seattle College campuses, to offer better professional career opportunities for our high school graduates. Washington state may follow suit.

Unfortunately, our state’s community and technical colleges have created a tenuous career system for their own professors. The select few tenure-track professors (4,000) have modest base salaries, averaging $62,000 an academic year (Fall, Winter and Spring quarters), with many earning more by teaching overtime or “moonlight” courses.

For complete article, please go to:

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/no-free-tuition-until-seattle-college-teachers-are-paid-living-wages/