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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Faculty underclass
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:40:41 GMT
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- In article <ARA.92Dec13184851@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
-
- >I'm naturally sympathetic to attempts to improve the conditions of
- >scholars, in particular part time faculty. I just get uneasy when it
- >seems to be done piecemeal.
-
- >Here are some questions and comments that come immediately to mind:
-
- >(1) Is it being asserted that everything is basically ok and all that needs
- > to be done is to implement the specific improvements recommended
- > by the AAUP, and that everything else can be left the way it is?
-
- This is manifestly not the case. But the problem is quite difficult.
-
- >(2) Is there any attempt to address the practice of defining
- > work to be part time if it is done by a part time employee and full
- > time if done by a full time employee, even if it is the same work?
- > When I taught at Brandeis, 2 courses per semester was full time work
- > and in 1981-2 (my last year there) earned me $20,000, the most I have ever
- > earned in my life and which was considered low by the standards of
- > other universities) whereas a friend of mine teaching two huge lecture
- > courses per semester in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1992 is considered
- > part time and earns $7000 per annum.
-
- There is a problem of what is full time and what is part time, but a much
- larger problem of what is the work of a full time employee, especially in
- academia. If Brandeis is the type of school I think it is, the teaching of
- two courses per semester, which may have been the OFFICIAL job description,
- was less than half of what a regular faculty member is expected to do.
-
- There are relatively few part time faculty who even have the additional
- duties normally done by full time faculty even at a non-research institution.
-
- There is too much teaching by those who just do the same thing every time.
- It was the belief that this is what all college professors do which led to
- the attempts to have this done by computer instead.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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