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I'm genuinely curious how universities are allocating their money such that these adjunct professors who are teaching more classes with more students, who are p
by freyrs3 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious how universities are allocating their money such that these adjunct professors who are teaching more classes with more students, who are paying ever growing tuition themselves, are still living below the poverty line. Is there just enormous waste in the system or is there some complication between the supply and demand of people and PhD-level academic positions?
- te_chris 13y agoAnecdotally, but here they always seem to have money for some fancy building project or another, hell, over the ditch in Australia UTS is building a fucking Gehry! This all seems to happen despite staff cutting, increasing fees and declining research output.
- iak8god 13y ago> Is there just enormous waste in the system That depends on your point of view. If you are a part of the metastisizing university bureaucracy, then you might think replacing full-time faculty with more administrators and staff is a great use of resources. "In the two decades from 1985 to 2005, student enrolment in the US rose by 56 per cent, faculty numbers increased by 50 per cent, degree-granting institutions expanded by 50 per cent, degrees granted grew by 47 per cent, administrators rocketed by 85 per cent and their attendant staff by a whopping 240 per cent." - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-fall-of-the-faculty-the-rise-of-the-all-administrative-university-and-why-it-matters/418285.article http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-fall-of-the-...