working in addition to teaching
As a teacher this made me chuckle
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DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 19 hours ago
You and I had very different college experiences, I had maybe a handful of professors who were worthless but most of them actually knew wtf they were talking about and were experts in their fields (many of whom were still working in addition to teaching).
udon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 44 minutes ago
Did you go to college? If so, I am very surprised you've never heard of adjunct professors, professors of practice, or visiting lecturers.
udon@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.
Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn’t really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.
Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn’t complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it’s not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you’re full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that’s the exception.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Agreed. I think it may be influenced by the degree in question. BSChE had some top level folks. One was prominent enough to figure out and have his own method.
I just checked again and he’s put out a ton of papers and been cited literally thousands of times. Probably explains why he forgot to come to class sometimes. Banging away on papers in the office. Pretty neat considering how little I’ve accomplished.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s a mixed bag. I’ve had both extremes.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 19 hours ago
That's life in a nutshell.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
One thing I will say is that it’s been much more institution based. Usually the quality instructors are clustered.
And it’s not clustered in “perceived” quality of institutions. I’ve been to some community colleges and ‘backwoods’ universities, as well as research one, top tier schools. No correlation between institutional reputation and instruction quality. What I will say is that the schools where instructors are more empowered and in control, the instruction was far higher quality.