This Is Who Is Teaching College
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This just came up on my Facebook feed. These are all professors from the top university in Ithaca, NY (yes, the one that outranks Cornell on the other hill.) This is one of the top colleges in the top regions of the country. These are professors at that university. This is how little job security and pay they have. Can there be any reason why people are surprised that being taught by people struggling with job security and below living wages. They can't pay for health insurance or pay of their student loans from the same university. I'm sure these are all nice people, but look at these problems.... they got degrees that they can't leverage into good jobs, can't figure out how to get better jobs, don't have job prospects, etc. If these are the people teaching college students, we can't expect most college students to get up to this level. How do people going into college expect to be able to afford their loans if this is the level of the people teaching them?
What makes people expect that just getting a degree will let them outperform the people on whose teaching skills the degree's value is based?
How can people think that college degrees are to get you a career? Seriously.
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Of course, they are all making these pictures hoping to shame Ithaca College, but of course the ones that they embarrass are the students who chose to go there. The college doesn't care, because they are a business and as long as students pay to attend, what do they care if their education and faculty are being mocked. They still outrank the famous Ivy League school that they can see on the other hill. They are mocking the very students that they will likely pretend to be there to support.
And they shame themselves. If they are, across the board, unable to get other work, why would Ithaca College pay them more than they do? If there was a shortage of near minimum wage professors or students were not willing to be taught by professors not able to earn a living wage they would change. But that's not happening.
If they want to change things, they need to acquire job skills and go work somewhere else. Look at some of them.... if they were really good at their fields, wouldn't they likely be able to find good part time or seasonal or whatever jobs in their field that at least pay reasonable wages? but they are doing farm work and manual labour to fill in the gaps. This helps to show that the college is hiring people only at the farm labour or manual labour level to be professors. The market outside of the college is not bearing them even as well as the college does. So really, seems like the college is doing them a favour as it is.
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No wonder that so many college graduates seem like whiny little entitled kids. They are being taught by whiny, entitled children.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
No wonder that so many college graduates seem like whiny little entitled kids. They are being taught by whiny, entitled children.
I've noticed that a lot of them are like that before they leave primary school (EN-US elementary school).
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So let me get this right.
They are sick of being taken advantage of....why don't they get other employment then?
I don't understand this concept that the world should change to suit me.
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They want to teach full time, and not have to do manual labor or whatever else when they aren't employed.
I see this has an issue on both sides.
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To continue this from earlier, people who go into college expecting to become tenured teachers with full time positions making 50K or whatever a "real salary" for a teacher / professor is are just insane.
Teaching to me is like cooking the fries at any fast food chain. Someone needs to do it, and there is a massive amount of people willing to come and do it for cheap, who offer nothing in particular for the job. They've got a piece of paper that says they "know this course material".
The continued mindset of students who go to college to become teachers (for whatever reason) don't see it as this. They see it as "I want to teach to help educate the community". Which quickly turns to "This community doesn't give a damn about me, only them selves. . . why shouldn't I get more"
It's an extremely self centered job (a lot like politics) that starts with good intentions, and then quickly devolves.
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@DustinB3403 said
It's an extremely self centered job (a lot like politics) that starts with good intentions, and then quickly devolves.
All the more reason why we should celebrate the few who continue to be good over the long haul.
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@Breffni-Potter said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@DustinB3403 said
It's an extremely self centered job (a lot like politics) that starts with good intentions, and then quickly devolves.
All the more reason why we should celebrate the few who continue to be good over the long haul.
Oh I don't disagree, but at the same time the idea of "I need a tenured job after 1-5 years" is crap.
No where else do you work for 1-5 years and have a life time position.
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@Breffni-Potter said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@DustinB3403 said
No where else do you work for 1-5 years and have a life time position.
Politics?
Not even there, sure the population has a hard time changing people out (especially in the US) but in politics you have to rerun ever few years.
It's essentially reapplying for the job.
