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How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy

John Minichillo has patched together a university teaching career with part-time gigs at various colleges for the past fifteen years. He represents the thousands of short-term university faculty who work without job security for low salaries because they believe, perhaps naively, that what they do is important. He’s in the last year of a non-renewable teaching contract, and he has no idea what’s next.