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Twilight of Academic Freedom
Cary Nelson describes how the shift to a majority contingent faculty is an intellectual sea change for undergraduates as well as faculty themselves.
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high school diploma holders earn better wages working on burger king....
Really? That's kind of the problem here...
I was a college instructor, but found working outside of this field was more stable.
Education for its own sake, to improve character is a Fact.
Yes, most of these College Instructor Jobs, are only a part-time, and are NOT enough income to survive.
It was at the end of WWII, with the New GI Bill, many vets went to college and instructor-professor careers were booming.
Those days have passed.
See, what happens is, a simple few have rouined academic freedom for the others.
Case in point, the intelligent design movement. The entire movement was founded to undermine science (I'm not joking; google the "Wedge Document.") These people tried abusing academic freedom in a failed attempt to teach creationism as science; a few pseudointellectuals have, I'm quite sad to say, ruined it for the res tof us.
As a TA working on a PhD, I used the term "academic freedom" to a contingent faculty member .. she loved the concept but had never heard of it. Although I teach Computer Science course(s), every semester I mention the fact that the founder of our field, Dr. Alan Turing, was gay! I hope my students will leave my class knowing that you do not have to be a Baptist from Waco to be a good Engineer or Mathematician.
the earth is a school. the system is extremely corrupt, starting with the educational system.
how sad, but true.