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Actual professors, no. Adjuncts. They don’t need ta’s for anything other than lab safety for the major-specific courses. It’s the first two years with the go
by jleyank 4y ago
Actual professors, no. Adjuncts. They don’t need ta’s for anything other than lab safety for the major-specific courses. It’s the first two years with the gobs and gobs of students.
- ablatt89 4y agoIt's not just lab work, I TA'd for physics and students would come to TA discussion sessions to get a more detailed lesson on the material covered that week since often the professor is just repeating the contents of a textbook. Also, many TAs would spend many additional hours in tutoring and office hours, giving individualized attention to students, and this workload adds up. TAs also grade quizzes, final exams, create questions for problems, etc... The professor often does very little work and leaves it to the TA, at least in my experience as a TA for physics courses. It's a lot more than just maintaining a lab.
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoCan’t get adjuncts for the price you pay phd students in California though.
- mcguire 4y agoThat's a different group in the strike. (https://www.science.org/content/article/postdoc-union-reaches-tentative-agreement-university-california https://www.science.org/content/article/postdoc-union-reache... discusses "postdocs and academic researchers", which isn't faculty, but I believe included adjuncts.)
- tomrod 4y agoThey outsource grading from professors to TAs. Adjuncts do this too where they can.