Well
I would have to be a lot less sanguine or neutral about this. Community
college jobs are not any more available and the pay for part-time at that
level is nothing short of obscenely low. As a former part-time faculty
person at a number of them while I finished my dissertation I would have
to say that this is the academic proletariat at its worst and most
exploitative and frankly, while I did it, I resented the patronizing
reassurances and sympathies of the tenured and often unproductive
overlords who paid me the equivalent of a good sales clerk's pay. While
I doubt anyone in the full-time ranks agrees to this system, their tacit
acceptance of it, at some benefit to themselves, used to grind me up. If
this is all you have to offer the grad students then they have every
right to question the ethical base of the profession they aspire too.
I agree that their are no guarantees, but one is expecting a lot from any
student getting professional training not to hope for a job in that
profession. Unrealistic hopes are the issue as well as the eradication
of a system of such spectacular inequity should get much more attention
than it does at present from the professoriate.
sean farrell moran
oakland univ.
> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 07:30:29 EDT
> From: JWARD@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU
>
> We certainly should tell prospective graduate students that the chances of
> landing a tenure-track job at a four-year college or university are bleak and
> not likely to improve any time soon. The job shortage is a result of the in-
> creasing reliance of schools on part-time instructors, and so any potential
> ....