> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 16:28 CDT
> From: TB0WPW1@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
>
> I suggest that Richard Jensen have a look at the AAUP
> demographics. I have found that History departments
> like to talk poorer than they are. I don't know why
> that should be so, but it appears to be true
Poorer in what sense? I state again that my department had 23 or 24
full-time tenure track positions when the university had 7500 students,
about 75 majors and no history grad program. We now have 15 and the
university has 13,400 students (and expects to grow to 16 over the next 5
years), our dept has over 120 majors I believe, and some 35 grad
students. We have done this while moving from a 3/3 to a 3/2 teaching
load as well. We lost a Russian/East European position most recently and
were told we were not to consider that one owed to us despite the fact
that the school has had someone in that area since the mid-60s, we have a
heavily Polish student body and an ongoing joint commitment to teach that
subject in our international studies program. It looks as if our majors
are up again this year as well.
I have talked to many who present exactly the same kind of scenario in
their schools and have worked in the fields of academia's proletariate
before landing this and gaining tenure. Is poverty in this communication
tied to standards of pay?
sean farrell moran
oakland university