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Uncle Joe

(58,517 posts) Sun Dec 18, 2022, 12:01 PM Dec 2022

All across the country,

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All across the country, (Original Post) Uncle Joe Dec 2022 OP

Certainly adjunct professors are, full professors have as pretty sweet deal. dem4decades Dec 2022 #1

Yes, but there are fewer and fewer full professors and more and more adjunct professors. Biophilic Dec 2022 #2

And... 2naSalit Dec 2022 #3

dem4decades

(11,321 posts)

1. Certainly adjunct professors are, full professors have as pretty sweet deal.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022, 12:04 PM

Dec 2022

Biophilic

(3,723 posts)

2. Yes, but there are fewer and fewer full professors and more and more adjunct professors.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022, 12:16 PM

Dec 2022

2naSalit

(86,906 posts)

3. And...

Reply to Biophilic (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 18, 2022, 01:18 PM

Dec 2022

Not mentioned here but some states are trying to cut pensions to retired faculty too. I am friends with several of my former professors and they have told me of their battles with the state over it. State universities are starving their workers to death. Student employees don't have time and focus to hold down several jobs and their studies for years in order to get something that is becoming less valuable over time as well.

The whole system needs to be evaluated and major adjustments made.

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