Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:09:19 EDT
From: "Hughie Lawson, Murray State" <hlawson@racer1.mursuky.edu>
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
>From: moran <moran@Oakland.edu>
>
>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.
I agree with Sean Moran. Because graduate education is professional
training, the available slots ought to be rationed in relation to job
availability. It would be good to underproduce Ph.D.'s. That
way, community-college teachers and high-school teachers would
college teachers would would more often move into thand college
teachers more often move to jobs at Ph.D. granting institutions. This
would be a much healthier situation than the present one, which produces
the feelings and recriminations we've seen posted to this topic.
It's easy for young people to say "I'll get the PhD and worry about the
job later." Old people ought to be more realistic *for* them. The
problem now is that the old people have no incentives to reduce the
graduate slots. But how to change the "contingencies of
reinforcement" as Skinner used to call it?
Hughie Lawson <hlawson@racer1.mursuky.edu>
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071