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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a family with two college prof parents (private fancy) and they get aid. [/quote]

You would be shocked at how little professors can make, even tenured ones at universities like Georgetown. The range in my field (humanities) is huge--$50k-$150k--for tenured faculty. Also, many professors on the DC area work on a contract basis ( ie, not tenured or tenure track), and earn as little as $3K per class.[/quote]

But there are people lining up for those jobs.  A tenured professor has plenty of opportunities for outside income and numerous perks.  A friend of mine is a professor at a top 25 university.   Required to teach 8 hours TOTAL each year - not credit hours - 8 hours - 480 minutes per year.  Adjunct professors teach for reasons other than comp.  [/quote]

A tenured professor spends the majority of his time researching, writing, and in administrative meetings. Also outside earnings are rare for those in the humanities, but more plentiful for those in the SS. In the hard sciences, outside funding gets channeled through the uni and there are rules about funding and research ethics that make truly independent external funding difficult.
Your friend is very, very unusual. But, you know that, right? Not a good example for this thread.
There are legions of adjunct faculty who teach for a living--those who don't land TT jobs. Read the CHE-- also, see the first sentence you wrote.

You are clearly not an academic.[/quote]

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