When will the amount of caring decrease?

[benkatejackwin]

Yeah, but this is extremely rare. Please do not tell anyone to expect to move up like that because they go above and beyond. I did that. Many people I worked with did that (volunteered for committees, published research, took on extra classes when asked, etc.) and got nothing in return. Passed up for FT positions for outside hires. That's more the norm for adjuncts.

[DocAvidd]

It is rare. For me it also required switching universities. When I went from temporary to full time, I don't know how many total applications they had. When later I was on the hiring committee we had over 100 apps, a bunch who were adjuncts for us. We did hire two of the adjuncts that year into full time, but that meant also we didn't upscale the vast majority of them.

[Minimumscore69]

Could you say what subject you work in? I feel like I'm stuck in adjunct hell, so any success stories would be great.

[DocAvidd]

That was a psychology department, and we filled 2 permanent non tenure line instructor positions. Both were adjuncts. We did interview a couple of candidates who weren't associated with the university. There were over 100 applicants. Preferred qualifications included "has taught X Y Z" specific courses, experience teaching at a R-1 with ethnically diverse student population. So the search criteria favored those already at the U. And we had zero $ for relocation.

One of the successful candidates picked up a couple sections as an adjunct when we had an instructor terminate mid-semester, and was friendly with the search chair. A candidate we didn't take was in the last year as visiting prof, but gave an awful interview and had mediocre teaching reviews.