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> Because the university wants to pay CS lecturers who teach 2000 students the same as they pay people who teach poetry to a class of 5. Maybe I'm wrong, but d
by passerby1 5y ago
> Because the university wants to pay CS lecturers who teach 2000 students the same as they pay people who teach poetry to a class of 5.
Maybe I'm wrong, but does University gain more profit from a class of 2000 students? If so, could it be the case that your friend does not sell himself at a market price for the teaching position? Probably there's another place which pays more for similar teaching.
There's no blame at all, sometimes people like to sell their time mostly not for money, but for emotions, that's completely understandable.
- josephg 5y agoThe university gets paid per student-year. So, yes. But I can also see an argument that more advanced classes in later years (eg Advanced AI) are at least as valuable for the university compared to earlier subjects. They might have smaller class sizes, but if the subject material is more difficult, it'd be harder to find sufficiently knowledgable teachers. And the availability of classes like that (arguably) sets good schools apart from bad ones. Its certainly a difficult problem. But it sounds like they aren't solving it well, and I think they're slowly driving out one of their best teachers.