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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The public looks down on professors?  [/quote]

+1  I am a professor.  I did not know that the "public" looked down on me.  Most people are very interested in talking to me when they find out that I am a scholar.  [/quote]

Do you live in DC? If so you are in a nerd bubble, doesn't count. I used to work for universities there but have since moved....people are not as impressed everywhere.

Do you read comments on articles about college costs?  90% of the time there are rants all about how faculty "only" teach two classes a year, don't work summers, and are grossly overpaid.  Now, I know this not to be true, but again, as I said, I am a university fundraiser and I hear this crap all the time.  Alumni want to know why their university is so much more expensive than it was when they were students, and they assume faculty salaries are to blame. I refute this argument constantly, because I know that is not true.  And that most faculty work hard.  But some are just assholes, and they do not care to hide it. My argument is that the bad apples poison the bunch because their attitude permeates everything they do and people know they have a superiority complex and a disdain for students and teaching when it is student tuition, after all, that pays the lion's share of the cost of their salaries and benefits, as they do mine.  I never forget who I really work for. [/quote]

So you're angry that you have to do your job - which is to refute untruths about the rising cost of higher education? Sounds like it's time for you to change jobs. [/quote]

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