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Keeping proposals cost neutral: yes, just increase class sizes to 90+ and then just have tenure-track faculty teach the remaining courses. / sarcasm
The longer-term fix: in two steps.
1. Philosophers need to accept that not getting a TT position is not failure . We need to stop the shame culture around this. It needs to start with graduate profesors .
2. Philosophers need to develop employment skills during graduate school that translate into markets other than the professoriate. The most obvious of these are tracks lead to positions in university administration in some form.
Almost all the resistance I get to step 2 is a result of people who really don't want to accept step 1. Some 75% of Humanities PhDs don't ultimately get TT positions, and that makes the professoriate the alternative career path (Source). They are also, in general, happier than those of us inside the academy.
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Sebastian Purcell
Associate Professor
Binghamton NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-28-2019 22:40
From: Kenneth Pike
Subject: Tenure-track faculty
Is there anything we can do to reduce institutional reliance on underpaid lecturers and faculty adjuncts, in favor of staffing classes with tenure-track faculty?
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Kenneth Pike
Arizona State Univeristy
Tempe AZ
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In response to Kenneth Pike, et. al: Things requiring reform in higher education include tenure track, the Ph.D. program, publish-or-perish. Decades agp a mewspaper article revealed a Congressional investigation into Ph.D. programs, and I believe there was a debate that grad schools may not drop students having passed the first few courses. A professor has done a Chronicle of Higher Ed piece, that success in TT is often due correct hiring, hiring the correct person.
Michael M. Kazanjian
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Michael Kazanjian
Instructor
Triton College
Chicago IL
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-28-2019 22:40
From: Kenneth Pike
Subject: Tenure-track faculty
Is there anything we can do to reduce institutional reliance on underpaid lecturers and faculty adjuncts, in favor of staffing classes with tenure-track faculty?
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Kenneth Pike
Arizona State Univeristy
Tempe AZ
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