I teach economics in a school of business in a small, Christian, school. The past-past-past-past president of the school is in his nineties and STILL COMES TO FACULTY MEETINGS. We are frequently reminded that we are a liberal arts institution. Only a matter of time until I’m adjunctified.
Last year our best chemistry professor left (the others are still pretty good) and this year our best biology professor is leaving. Neither is being replaced. Bad sign, but it gets worse. Every time a historian leaves, we hire a replacement historian, the chief requirement of which is to be to the left of Barack Obama. They teach large enrollment “core” classes and low enrollment history and social justice classes, many of which are high-priced indoctrination sessions. The students and parents are smart enough to transfer most of that “core” stuff in from community colleges or high schools at a fraction of the price of taking it here. And the old guard administrators wonder why the university is tanking. It must be those evil, overpaid, underworked, capitalist business professors.
This semester I am teaching 18 hours and haven’t had time to publish a single paper so far this academic year. I wonder why? Just lazy, I guess.
Needless to say, the science folks truly are way overworked and underpaid, so I feel guilty complaining.
BTW, our past-past-past-past president is a social sciences type whose father was president of the institution IN THE 1930s!
Hmm. I wonder what the problem is?
It is so sad what has happened to so-called “Christian” universities, colleges and seminaries as a result of political correctness and inherent corruption. Why in the world would a Christian college promote “social justice”, which is Marxist and anti-Christian?