September 27, 2022 ·

Image: Kristi McGuire, Tripper Ripper, digital collage, 2022. The diptych features an image of Jack Tripper (left) and Jack the Ripper (right); both figures are wearing large hats, and a thick black circle obscures their faces. Seventy-eight percent of courses at SAIC are taught by non-tenure-track faculty, and 45 percent of the faculty at SAIC are unranked lecturers who continue to teach with no access to institutional benefits (including health insurance) or pathways to promotion, as they have through the entirety of the pandemic.
Serial killing: a lecturer teaching 6 courses a year, with no health insurance, earns ~$32,000/year.

Image: Kristi McGuire, Tripper Ripper, digital collage, 2022. The diptych features an image of Jack Tripper (left) and Jack the Ripper (right); both figures are wearing large hats, and a thick black circle obscures their faces. Seventy-eight percent of courses at SAIC are taught by non-tenure-track faculty, and 45 percent of the faculty at SAIC are unranked lecturers who continue to teach with no access to institutional benefits (including health insurance) or pathways to promotion, as they have through the entirety of the pandemic. Serial killing: a lecturer teaching 6 courses a year, with no health insurance, earns ~$32,000/year.

Image: Kristi McGuire, Tripper Ripper, digital collage, 2022. The diptych features an image of Jack Tripper (left) and Jack the Ripper (right); both figures are wearing large hats, and a thick black circle obscures their faces. Seventy-eight percent of courses at SAIC are taught by non-tenure-track faculty, and 45 percent of the faculty at SAIC are unranked lecturers who continue to teach with no access to institutional benefits (including health insurance) or pathways to promotion, as they have through the entirety of the pandemic.
Serial killing: a lecturer teaching 6 courses a year, with no health insurance, earns ~$32,000/year.