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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a tenured professor and have worked in higher ed for a quarter of a century. It’s become insufferable. According to MIT’s living wage calculator, my salary is below a living wage. I earn less in one year than a full pay student pays in tuition, room and board. We get raises across the board, no more than 2% ever, no merit raises, and as such my salary is significantly less than my starting salary as an assistant professor when adjusted for inflation, and even worse when you calculate the changes to benefits. Each year we are asked to do more and more with fewer resources. Faculty are hostile to one another and the administration, students are cheating more than ever, entitled, and post unfair and untrue comments on social media and course evaluations.

The only saving grace at the moment is the tuition benefits for DCs. And that may even be on the chopping block.

Unfortunately I cannot make a lateral move in academia, and making any move whatsoever within academia is unlikely. I’ve applied for government jobs and nonprofits and gotten nowhere. Industry jobs in my area of expertise, if you can call them that, are even lower paying.

So as the subject says, the situation is all around demoralizing. I don’t know what to do. [/quote]

It’s a part time job. Even back in my college days my full time professor my school was a full time professor at a second nearby college. He said I need two to get a full time salary. [/quote]

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