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[quote=Anonymous]Like all fields, you should look at job prospects before you start a longterm training program. Especially if you are going to sink money into getting the training. I still see lots of openings advertised in HigherEdJobs.com every week. Mind you, I am looking in a slightly different (but still social science) field. Two clear trends in academia that poters are right about are: schools are moving away from offering tenure AND they are trying to use adjunct professors more because they are poorly paid and don't get benefits. Students suffer particularly from the latter (i.e. since adjuncts are usually not based at the school, change constantly, don't have ongoing research underway, etc). Parents looking at colleges should study the titles of the faculty listed on departmental webpages. You should only really count the ones who don't have the word "Adjunct" in front of their titles.[/quote]
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