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eppur_se_muova

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6. "Researchers ... are treated like kings" ... where, pray tell, is this Utopia ?

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:41 PM

Apr 2016

I have been trying to land a position that favors research over teaching since I got my PhD in 1999. They are not to be found. The only positions for which I can get hired are part-time and/or temporary teaching positions, with ZERO possibility of research. It seems the only people who have any chance to do research are those who were hired under "the old rules". As these people retire, there are going to be none to replace them, and our universitites will be such in name only.

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Question for those of you who currently teach at the University level. [View all] redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 OP

I don't teach at a college, but I agree with your frustration 100% LisaM Apr 2016 #1

I want him to, but it is getting hard to stick it out. redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #5

"Researchers ... are treated like kings" ... where, pray tell, is this Utopia ? eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #6

That doesn't go with what we have seen at our institution. redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #9

I have advised my daughter not to go into academia Blue Meany Apr 2016 #2

Everything and anything... DeGreg Apr 2016 #3

Got out of college teaching 40 yrs ago.... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #4

Thoughts from a recent retiree from higher education ladym55 Apr 2016 #7

All I can say is AMEN! redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #8