# The Atlantic: The Death of an Adjunct

**URL:** <https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/the-atlantic-the-death-of-an-adjunct/195>\
**Category:** Academia\
**Tags:** health-ensurance, tenure\
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/the-atlantic-the-death-of-an-adjunct/195 "2019-04-10T23:51:27Z")\
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On the death of Adjunct Professor Thea Hunter and the lack of health insurances for non-tenured faculty members.

> **[The Death of an Adjunct](https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/)**
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> Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.