25 years old and deep in debt

[alfred russel]

I'm sure the zillion PhDs desperate for a teaching job--never mind a tenure track position--are thrilled to hear that assessment.

To cure an infestation of lice, the eggs of the insect must likewise be destroyed.

Does that apply to struggling law grads as well? 

[DGuller]

Before all the teacher-haters and anti-intellectual mouthbreathers bitch:

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski received a big pay raise this year to $7.2 million making him the highest-paid coach in college basketball and all of college sports.

Oh, please, that's just 120 undergrads.

[Savonarola]

Before all the teacher-haters and anti-intellectual mouthbreathers bitch:

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski received a big pay raise this year to $7.2 million making him the highest-paid coach in college basketball and all of college sports.

He's built the Duke brand.   



Most profs don't make that much; I had posted an article a few months back which listed about half the professors in the United States are part time non-tenure, another 20% are full time non-tenure and in addition there are innumerable TAs who teach lower level classes.  The examples in the article are upper administration and a super-star in the STEM field.  Even at Duke that's the exception.

Many people complain about the cost of education and, to me, $240,000 seems like an exorbitant amount for an undergraduate degree; but what do you cut?

[Josquius]

An interesting opinion piece at the Globe essentially saying that time spent teaching at universities is way down.  The excuse given is more time is being spent on research.  But for at least 20% of professors in Ontario they have both a light teaching load and are not spending their time doing research.  Its estimated that if those professors who are not spending their time doing research would spend their time teaching a large number of spaces would be created - or put another way, we have way too many profs burdening the system.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/professors-need-to-teach-more/article17414147/

The entire system is broken.
If you have 16 hours of classes a week then you've a heavy workload. Many have only a handful. Even taking reading time into account...why do you have to stay in that place for 3 or 4 years of such crap just to get a bit of paper which means you're allowed to apply for jobs?

[Monoriu]

The entire system is broken.
If you have 16 hours of classes a week then you've a heavy workload. Many have only a handful. Even taking reading time into account...why do you have to stay in that place for 3 or 4 years of such crap just to get a bit of paper which means you're allowed to apply for jobs?

It is a bad system, but I can't think of a better one. 

[Ideologue]

I can.

[Monoriu]

I can.

Please enlighten me

[crazy canuck]

The entire system is broken.
If you have 16 hours of classes a week then you've a heavy workload. Many have only a handful. Even taking reading time into account...why do you have to stay in that place for 3 or 4 years of such crap just to get a bit of paper which means you're allowed to apply for jobs?

It is a bad system, but I can't think of a better one.

If you read the opinion piece I linked, we had a better system.

[garbon]

I don't read articles, I'm only here for the pics.

[crazy canuck]

 

[MadImmortalMan]

Your likelihood of losing your job to a computer.

In the future, the only job will be holodeck program designer.

[HVC]

Robot cooks?

[Admiral Yi]

Sure.

[Malthus]

Computerized computer programmers (at 48%) - strikes me as a science-fiction distopia in the making. 

[Jacob]

I think wealth inequality is the natural result of private property and capital markets that provide a return.

Does the order of magnitude of the inequality matter to you?