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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh OP, you keep qualifying your statement as if you don't mean all professors and then you go on a rant as if every professor were responsible for the bad ones. This reminds me of the criticisms I see on DCUM of the black community as if every black person had to account for the shooting at the zoo on Easter Monday.

I'd give my left arm to be an underpaid professor again. I don't care if you think I'm selfish and want to make me responsible for the few profs who phone it in. You seem to want to hate us all despite your attempts to qualify your assertions.

But it is true that anyone who is interested in the profession should really think carefully about it. And talk to people newly in the field rather than people who have been out awhile. My advisor couldn't understand why I was applying to so many schools. He was sure I'd get 12 offers. Moron. [/quote]

My point is that the bad ones fulfill the worst assumptions that the public has of professors because they are SO bitter, and it is blindingly obvious.  I am a fundraiser and I have to refute this stuff from alumni every day while I get treated as one of those evil "administrators.". It gets tiring having these people bitch about having no money when they are the most difficult and obnoxious people to work with.  The difficult ones and the most difficult departments get no money because they alienate donors. I've had alumni parents bitch about some of these people to me, not that it matters.  They are untouchable because of tenure.  So what happens?  The department loses money when that alumni parent pulls or withholds donations.  I work with tons of great profs, but the ones who are bad are truly horrid.

And to the PP who pointed out that they make less than other professions with similar levels of education.....so what?  It's not like that isn't a well known fact.  If that's not the life you want, get a JD or an MBA instead of a PhD in English. [/quote]

Like others, I am having trouble figuring out what you are so angry about.  It sounds like you are angry because you get less donations when alumni don't like certain professors.  So the problem is that it reflects on you? Cause it sounds like when departments alienate donors they get the natural consequences, so whats it to you?  And why are you measuring professors by how much alumni give them?[/quote]

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