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1. #1    As an adjunct college teacher for 12 years who gets paid roughly 1/3 what a new faculty teacher makes, I hardily endorse these suggestions. It is quite difficult to inspire students to devote their time to learning when I am an example of someone who devoted ten years to college learning, but earn less than a truck driver (who took a six week course) and I cannot afford health insurance. (No offense to truck drivers.)
   written by PhilosopherJay since 205 days 21 hours 41 minutes
2. #2    In other words it's important to turn community colleges into real colleges.
   written by epppie since 205 days 11 hours 45 minutes
3. #3    epppie,
   
   Real colleges do their best to treat faculty like shit too. One private college makes non-tenure track faculty re-apply for their jobs every year and advertise their jobs nationally. That makes me glad I teach at CC's.
   
   The bottom line is business is still punishing higher ed for the political changes of the 60s, when they lost control of public opinion. Read the Powell Memo by then future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell on how business could regain the upper hand. The majority of it was about how to neutralize the effects of real scholarship and debate at colleges and universities.
   
   http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html
   written by yurbud since 205 days 9 minutes

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