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I wish the website of this article allowed me to mass email it to by friends and true-beliver freaks at the workplace.
These locals may teach nearly all of the courses in a particular sub area like developmental psychology, but usually have only a shared desk for office space and no say in department policy. One quarter of the pay for a full professor is a fair estimate of what they make, but the locals are paid by the course.
The author is correct in saying leftist professors, otherwise spouting dogma, if they notice the part-timers at all, look on them with disdain.
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Thanks for posting this article. I only read VDH occasionally and found this one to be well worth my time. I highly recommend it to anyone with a child about to be or currently in higher education or if they themselves are attempting to further their education. I have one child at a university and I am pursuing a graduate degree at the same university. Good to have another perspective from inside the belly of the beast, if you will.
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The modern public university teaches the student that his verbal or analytical shortcomings have little to do with his lack of discipline, effort, or talent, but instead arise from a variety of social and state pathologies — ranging from poverty and racism to gender bias and public neglect. Redress can start only when the student realizes why and how he has been victimized and discovers that the same government that harmed him also offers more enlightened public servants to undo the damage. He is expected, after graduation, to proselytize for this creed of entitlement, big government, and victimization.
Bad ju-ju, that!
Schools are asked to educate troubled youth
I went to Catholic grade school/high school, the the nuns that taught us had a solution for that. YOU WILL LEARN....or else. Hard? You bet, and they weren't afraid to set you back to do a grade over again. But it worked.....at least for me it did.
Who would teach it? Unfortunately, that sort of academic - it used to be called "discipline" but that word has unfortunate patriarchical opressive implications (sniff!) - rigor - nope, same problem - persuasion, perhaps, is becoming less and less prevalent among faculties that have been structured around progressive political enthusiasms. Student bodies have mushroomed in numbers and qualifications diluted. Is it possible for an assistant professor with a PhD in Gender Studies who cannot write a cogent sentence in English possessing a subject and a predicate, to teach Latin? To learn Latin? To spell "Latin?"
Scholars once were private citizens bitterly oppressed by state and by Church if they were not fortunate enough to be running with the hounds in the latter institution. Real scholarship, at least in the liberal arts, has now been marginalized and is being forced underground on the very university campuses that were designed to nurture and promote it. The barbarians aren't at the gate, they were invited in and have taken over arts and letters and are reaching out to grab control of the sciences as well. There they seem to have foundered, at least at the moment, but when we see courses in "Women's Mathematics" we'll know that the end times have arrived for higher education.