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> worse that they can't muster a healthy academic culture that respects all their faculty equally, whether they're tenure track, adjunct, or tenured. Saying th
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> worse that they can't muster a healthy academic culture that respects all their faculty equally, whether they're tenure track, adjunct, or tenured.
Saying things like this is a real disservice to the kinds of people who waste years and decades of their lives trying to return to academia after being rejected. Deliberate gestures of inclusiveness encourage people to keep hoping long past all reason.
- Sirened 4y agoYes, that's fair--this was an unhelpful and uncharitable thing to say. Many faculty do certainly work hard on this
- barry-cotter 4y agoYou have misinterpreted my point. Gestures of inclusiveness to adjunct “faculty” are bad because they aren’t faculty and will never be treated as such. Treating the unfortunates who do those jobs in the hope of becoming academics better is good for them but bad overall because it encourages applications for jobs like that which are only suitable for those of independent means or who have supportive families/spouses.