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The Job Market For Professors

Toby Talbot
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AP
Roughly 20% of the courses taught at St. Mike's are taught by adjuncts. At Champlain college, adjuncts teach about half the classes.

Last month adjunct faculty at Burlington College, Champlain College, and St. Michael's College all voted separately to join the Service Employees International Union. The faculty say they are looking for stability, benefits, and increased compensation.

We learn more about who teaches in adjunct or lecturer positions, what their role is at Colleges and Universities, and why some of them are interested in unionizing. We talk to Sean Witters, a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Vermont and a member of United Academics, and Genevieve Jacobs, an adjunct at Champlain College and Community College of Vermont.

Also on the show, in November of this year seven people died from heroin overdoses in the upper valley. It turns out all of them had used heroin laced with a drug called Fentanyl. We learn more about what Fentanyl is and why it's killing people in Vermont with Dr. Ben Nordstrom, the Director of Addiction services at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

Broadcast live on Thursday, December 11 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for Vermont Public. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning Vermont Public program Vermont Edition.
Sage Van Wing was a Vermont Edition producer.
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