Where the academic jobs are Data show long-term growth of part-time faculty slots, administrative jobs outpacing instructor posts, and boom in for-profit sector. http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/03/jobs
From the article : "” .. To attract instructors with work experience in the subject matter taught ..” When an IHE column reports 350 applicants for a TT philosophy position in S. Calif. — how many more “instructors” need to be “attracted?” Hopefully, not many more — the current situation is ridiculous, wasteful, and cruel." This happens even for business faculty positions. I'm a part of a hiring committe and is normal to receive 100 applications for one limited term appointment that normally will be given to an insider but posted on the University website just to comply with HR policies. Also, the article states: "I also teach full-time at a for-profit “college” that sells bachelor’s degrees if students show up for four years. Academic rigor at the for-profit is a joke and we graduate students who lack basic literacy." As a faculty member that have worked for private for profit schools, I must tend to agree with this. Some profit schools only evaluate faculty based on student evaluations and what best way to keep good student evaluations high than by granting a ridiculous number of "A"s. I find that some students at these schools get upset when the get a B for substandard work as the A seems to be the norm. I'm not saying that grade inflation is only a problem of for profit education but it seems to me that this is where is more frequent.
Re: Re: Where the academic jobs are I agree - at a recent starting class for the UoP MBA - one student sought to confirm that they WOULD get an "A" because that's what the recruiter promised them - "everybody gets an "A". Generated quite a bit of discussion
