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This seems to me to be just another attack on professional careers in this country. If I were to pick the most significant staffing trend impacting the quality
by forgotAgain 16y ago
This seems to me to be just another attack on professional careers in this country.
If I were to pick the most significant staffing trend impacting the quality of college education it would not be the granting of tenure. Rather it is the use of adjuncts to teach classes, the sole purpose of which is to reduce cost for the university.
Why so many people are trying to stratify the society into a wealthy few and near indigent masses I don't understand but the ideas given in the article serve only that purpose.
- jdhopeunique 16y agoA recession is the perfect time to take a hard look at budgets and trim what is not needed. People will question professional careers that are inflated and that is just a natural economic process. The university system is already heavily stratified with tenured professors in the upper class and grad students and staff in the lower class. I agree with your point about the use of adjuncts being a significant staffing trend. It's also a necessary trend especially at non-research (or sub-par research) universities. The combined roles of researcher and teacher at these universities lead to mediocrity in both in my opinion with professors using research as an excuse for slack teaching. Most students learn outside the class anyway.