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By: Breakin’ up is hard to do. « More or Less Bunk

Breakin’ up is hard to do. « More or Less Bunk — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:01:24 +0000

[...] What I know about teaching comes from experience, both as a content provider and from providing individual guidance. I would still be able to use my individual guidance skills if I no longer had the chance to provide content, but it’s my content knowledge that makes me most qualified to teach college. That knowledge, along with the disciplinary skills used to develop it, is what my employer is primarily paying for when they hire me in exchange for my low (but still living) wage. Even if I didn’t have to become a TA in Koller’s world, I could easily be replaced by one which would only force my wages down further than they already are. [...]

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:37:24 +0000

The sad state of PhDs in America is a direct contrast to the exalted state of PhDs in Austria. Here everyone who is anyone has a PhD. You can not be taken seriously at any job if you don’t. I think this has something to do with the worship of status and not having nobility since the breakup of the Hapsburg Empire after WWI. They actually do go around calling each other Doctor. It took me awhile to acclimate but I now use my lowly degree, Magister, to identify myself as it really does make a difference how you are treated even in the doctor’s office.

By: nicoleandmaggie

nicoleandmaggie — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:09:53 +0000

Do you really think that the money not paid to business school professor salaries is going to go anywhere remotely like adjunct salaries? At state schools it will go to less money provided from the state government. Also: business school adjuncts are well paid– ours get well over 10K/class. Additionally, if b-school professors teach more classes, doesn’t that mean that there will be fewer jobs for the relatively well-paid adjuncts who teach the classes they don’t? It’s not like b-school professors can take on a comp 101 class. On top of all that, b-schools are generally money makers for the rest of the university. The tuitions they bring in pay for programs in other schools.

I’m not in a b-school, but I’m not getting the logic.

By: Jonathan Rees

Jonathan Rees — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:01:04 +0000

1. Organize. 2. Stop demanding pay raises that match the private sector when adjuncts can’t put food on the table. 3. Teach more classes like the rest of us.

By: nicoleandmaggie

nicoleandmaggie — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:48:40 +0000

Help how?
p.s. The only time the business profs I know are unhappy is when they have to deal with business students. I’m not sure I begrudge them their higher salaries and lower class loads in that respect.