Cruel Irony (1 Viewer)

[raymondchouku]

When I was in undergrad I had a professor who taught Biology. She was completely incompetent and has to give retake exams to the entire class because she did not explain the material well. But she was tenured and had been there for over 20 years. Her salary was around 75k

I had a history instructor who was engaging and who I learned a lot about modern world history. Since he was adjunct status he was paid per class and averaged $2000 per course and taught 2 classes during the semester I took one of his classes.

I have conflicting thoughts on taxes, but I still think it would be a decent thing to do for tenured professors to offer aid to those in this position. Anyway your thoughts?

 

[RandAlThor]

When I was in undergrad I had a professor who taught Biology. She was completely incompetent and has to give retake exams to the entire class because she did not explain the material well. But she was tenured and had been there for over 20 years. Her salary was around 75k

I had a history instructor who was engaging and who I learned a lot about modern world history. Since he was adjunct status he was paid per class and averaged $2000 per course and taught 2 classes during the semester I took one of his classes.

I have conflicting thoughts on taxes, but I still think it would be a decent thing to do for tenured professors to offer aid to those in this position. Anyway your thoughts?

I am very unfond of tenure.
Especially in a public job.
i wish there were some way to get real evacuations on folks and start the term process.
but what we end up with is like the bar association rating lawyers to be judges or judges moving up.. sure no conflict of interest there....

 

[raymondchouku]

I am very unfond of tenure.

Its really a mess and some profs are tone deaf. I knew this one that I sort of liked and her household income was 80k and she spent most of her classes giving lectures on the evils of capitalism and the virtues of classical Marxism. lmao. Its like giiirrrllll... when you ideal vision of communism comes true you won't be making that bank anymore

 

[RandAlThor]

Its really a mess and some profs are tone deaf. I knew this one that I sort of liked and her household income was 80k and she spent most of her classes giving lectures on the evils of capitalism and the virtues of classical Marxism. lmao. Its like giiirrrllll... when you ideal vision of communism comes true you won't be making that bank anymore

at the university level i actually think they should have max (as in time not money :)) contracts then they gotta get a job for a period of time.
A real job not some think tank.. Some might be able to do both say a chem engineer working for a rocket fuel company ect.