Re: As universities build reliance on ill-paid contingent labor, it's the students who suffer
Robert White <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 20:50:54 -0400
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The person (or persons) can who bring this mindset to U.S. secondary schools will make *billions* of dollars.... Bob White On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:34:39 +0200, Laval Hunsucker wrote: > A huge problem, indeed, and not only in the U.S. > > Widely (universally?) recognized. Much discussed. Much lamented. No > solution in sight (or perhaps even realistically imaginable), as far as I > can tell. > > I'm long departed from such an environment, myself, but all of this still > makes me quite despondent. > > - Laval H. > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 23:21 DANIEL P. Tompkins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From a news item about University of NC, Wilmington: >> >> "... the side-effects of growth, the larger class sizes in critical >> courses, professors taking on more courses each semester, *ultimately hurt >> the students*." >> >> How many faculty there are tenured / tenure-track? The data isn't easy to >> find. (Indeed, we need a good national survey of this.) >> >> Is institutional growth being built on a reserve army of contingent labor? >> >> This has job market relevance: as people complain about lack of decent >> jobs, this story reminds us that there are in fact *plenty of courses that >> need to be taught*: but too often, universities are hiring on the >> cheap, *refusing >> decent compensation to the teachers they hire.* >> >> I am not an expert on this, but I can say, it's hurting students and the >> profession. I can say that it's the expensive / elite institutions that >> seem most likely to provide stable fulltime teachers, and that students >> gain from that. The question is, is that where we should be investing, >> when the bulk of American postsecondary students don't benefit? >> >> Dan >> >> >> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wect.com%2F2019%2F10%2F25%2Fgrowing-pains-uncw-faculty-chancellor-odds-over-growth%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7Cf2fb636a6e924241b52508d75a77ba55%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637077342608762097&sdata=ocJjprXhkTAeBz2nT5lqShpQCDyHiGLbRlf%2F%2FITyfWg%3D&reserved=0 >>