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[quote=Anonymous]I work at a large university that is increasingly dependent on term faculty to do the teaching, leaving the research and grant-writing to tenured and tenure track faculty. As a result, we have fewer tenure track positions to offer, which make the tenured faculty crazy. They scream that the students are suffering because they are not getting the benefit of an education provided by tenured professors. Guess what? That's a load of crap. For the most part (and there are some notable exceptions), tenured faculty only have interest in their narrow focus of reearch and maybe their graduate students while they disdain the undergraduate students, especially those at the freshman or sophomore levels, not to mention an open hostility at being forced to teach lower level courses to those students. The term faculty are the heroes of colleges and universities everywhere as they are the ones doing the heavy lifting for far less pay and benefits than than tenured faculty, and for the most part, they are the ones with the stellar teaching evaluations because that is what they do: teach. Often, they are just as scholarly as those with tenure and also have professional experience in their field to boot. They tend not to reside in the ivory tower of academics, but rather have a solid footing in the real world and understand the issues and challenges their students will face as they enter the job market. I'm just so tired of the baseless arrogance of these tenured professors who do so little for their students, but expect so much from their employers. [/quote]
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