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Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia

Have a friend in the bay area who is a phd who recently got out of her field after decades because she realized she'd never get tenured. Now makes more money and has more job security.
 
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Have a friend in the bay area who is a phd who recently got out of her field after decades because she realized she'd never get tenured. Now makes more money and has more job security.
True job security is rare these days.
 
Have a friend in the bay area who is a phd who recently got out of her field after decades because she realized she'd never get tenured. Now makes more money and has more job security.
Aren't you one of the users shielded by moderators?? Pretty sure you're the one I saw inciting violence against others that you disagree with politically.
 
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Aren't you one of the users shielded by moderators?? Pretty sure you're the one I saw inciting violence against others that you disagree with politically.
Yes, I have a super secret get out of jail pass (it's laminated). It allows me to send mobs after anyone who opposes me. You're next after they finally get Tebow.
 
Left unsaid is the labor practices of academia. I went into graduate school because it was predicted there was a growing need for college professors for the rapidly expanding undergraduate population. But, instead, they increased the teaching load for poorly paid/unpaid graduate students and hired adjuncts at poverty level wages across the the system. Now, more than 70% of classes are taught by graduate students/adjuncts for poverty wages. At the same time, acceding to demands from feminist and minorities, tenure track positions were illegally used to increase diversity to the professorate. When I was looking for a job (1990s), I was usually the only finalist that was a male, and was never offered a tenure track position. I labored as a visiting professor for several years attempting to get that elusive tenure track job. I was personally told by those there and observed myself several times this illegal hiring practice in action. Finally, I went out to the private world and almost doubled my salary the first year.

Meanwhile the size of the administration at universities doubled. Much of this administration went toward its non-core academic functions.

Recent strikes at the UCal system and New College are only a continuation of what we have seen for years. But, no one has taken on the mismanagement and poverty of wages for those doing the actual teaching.

At this point, I recognize that going out to the private world was the best move I made as colleges have ceased to be innovative and more about enforcing ideology. Whether its your ideology or not, everyone should be concerned with the state of those systems.
 
Left unsaid is the labor practices of academia. I went into graduate school because it was predicted there was a growing need for college professors for the rapidly expanding undergraduate population. But, instead, they increased the teaching load for poorly paid/unpaid graduate students and hired adjuncts at poverty level wages across the the system. Now, more than 70% of classes are taught by graduate students/adjuncts for poverty wages. At the same time, acceding to demands from feminist and minorities, tenure track positions were illegally used to increase diversity to the professorate. When I was looking for a job (1990s), I was usually the only finalist that was a male, and was never offered a tenure track position. I labored as a visiting professor for several years attempting to get that elusive tenure track job. I was personally told by those there and observed myself several times this illegal hiring practice in action. Finally, I went out to the private world and almost doubled my salary the first year.

Meanwhile the size of the administration at universities doubled. Much of this administration went toward its non-core academic functions.

Recent strikes at the UCal system and New College are only a continuation of what we have seen for years. But, no one has taken on the mismanagement and poverty of wages for those doing the actual teaching.

At this point, I recognize that going out to the private world was the best move I made as colleges have ceased to be innovative and more about enforcing ideology. Whether its your ideology or not, everyone should be concerned with the state of those systems.
Terrible labor practices. The cost of education is skyrocketing more than inflation, and for most freshman / sophomore courses at State University a minimum wage graduate assistant is teaching sometimes more 100 plus students in an auditorium.

Online classes cost even more than in-person classes due to "technology fees". What BS.
 
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