Have you ever thought to yourself, Wow! We can't hire any new faculty, 'cause we're running out of things to teach!
No? I didn't think so.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Please, not in my department.
Have you ever thought to yourself, Wow! We can't hire any new faculty, 'cause we're running out of things to teach!
No? I didn't think so.
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Welcome to my world! I'm in history: we get that attitude pretty much all the time.
No. But I've been all like, why won't that dean motherfucker give us some fucking hondo so we can hore some new fucking faculft.
My favorite is when someone decides that I could just step in and teach the courses of another person who's left for better pastures, because all of the people who study rhetoric and technology are apparently interchangable. Finally I told him that this would be like asking our Old English specialist to create a viable syllabus for a Screenwriting class, and I think he got it....
Our school motto is "what do you need new faculty for? Just hire an adjunct. Have a bakesale to raise the salary money."
You don't need more faculty, yo need less administrators. I have sister in law teaches special education and speech therapy at elementary school level. For each hour she teaches she is required to do documentation that requires 4 hours per student to complete.
If university is anything like public schools, kill the administrators, then you will have all the time and money you need to get real teaching and work done.
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