We have liberal professors railing against “income inequality”. How about these liberal professors apply the proposed rules to their profession?
Most full time college professors teach only a few courses a year. This goes back 50 years. When I went to a small liberal arts college 1965-1969, the department head taught a class per semester, the other professors taught maximum of three courses per semester. What made their jobs easy was the fact that they taught the same courses every class cycle (two years of academics) - NO new material. Once the material was fully developed it was cast in concrete and never changed.
My proposal is simple - full time college professors need to be paid the same rate as the college’s adjunct professors. After all they have voluntarily restricted themselves to the same work load - why not the same pay scale?
First, an adjunct only teaches classes. Regular faculty teach classes, conduct research (or produce art if they’re in the arts) — one of the points of going to a university is to learn from someone who is pushing the frontier of knowledge (or an active artist) not a mere teacher — and help run their departments. The notion that a university professor’s job consists only in teaching is analogous to regarding lawyers as “not working” when they aren’t arguing a case before a court.
Second, most regular faculty object to the use of adjuncts, as harmful to the profession (which it is both economically and because adjuncts usually are not active scholars so their use dilutes the point of a university as opposed to a mere school), which is enforced by administrators who see the university as their personal fiefdom — to cut costs so they can pay themselves more or hire more staff or fund projects like “Safe Sex Week” or a training program in microaggressions for RAs — and have no loyalty to the University as an institution of Western Civilization.