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The replacement for tenure track faculty is teaching only faculty, which is already happening across the world. Teaching only faculty have even less incentive
by abdullahkhalids 4y ago
The replacement for tenure track faculty is teaching only faculty, which is already happening across the world.
Teaching only faculty have even less incentive and time to stay on top of research progress. 10 years out of their PhD, the teaching only faculty is hopelessly out of touch of the state of the art in any super active field.
- ModernMech 4y agoWouldn’t the incentive be to stay relevant?
- abdullahkhalids 4y agoAlways, ask what is the economics of things. Full time teaching faculty teach 3 courses every semester, for it to make financial sense to pay them for full time salaried role. Trying to teach a course well takes at least 12-15 hours of work every week, if not more. That's already more than 40 hours per week. Add a few hours of service requirements to this as well. Where is the time or the mental energy to learn new stuff? At best they will supervise an undergraduate thesis or two every year, where perhaps the students will teach them some new stuff. It's only the gifted, who are able to keep up. The average faculty member just falls further and further behind.
- ModernMech 4y agoAs a full time teaching professor with a 3/3-course load, I can say there’s definitely time — the summer, when I’m off from the beginning of May to the end of August; and the winter, when I’m off from the beginning of December to the end of January.