Portrait of the adjunct as an older man

-- Average age of an adjunct faculty member at a community college: 48
-- Percentage of adjuncts at community colleges who are male: 52
-- Average hours a community college adjunct spends on work related to teaching: 36
-- Average number of hours a community college adjunct spends in a classroom: 8
-- Average classroom hours for adjuncts at all types of institutions: 7
-- Average percentage of teaching done by adjuncts at a community college: 64
-- Percentage of adjunct community college faculty that is tenured or on the tenure track: 4
-- Average per-credit-hour salary of community college adjuncts: $3,566
-- Average per-credit-hour salary of community college full-time faculty: $6,603