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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you advice young people to aspire to be university professors...or is everyone an adjunct these days?[/quote]

(OP here): The path is continually more treacherous, and there are ever fewer tenure line positions. My field's job postings, when I came out, would have a couple hundred postings, and half or more were tenure line. Now it's maybe 1/4 tenure line. It's depressing how the bottom has fallen out of academic teaching/research. [/quote]

Advice should be “don’t do that”.

https://t.co/4DyJsmbcjJ

“Between 2019 and 2020 1,799 historians earned their Ph.D.s, and only 175 of them are now employed as full-time faculty members.”

Doubt other humanities disciplines are much better.

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(OP here): yeah, I didn't finish the conclusion, but you did state it well, thank you. I recall in the mid-90's, and the head of our (large, top) phd program telling us at orientation about the Chronicle articles continually citing the great, coming retirement wave of boomer faculty, ready to collect their TIAA-CREF earnings, and opening a slew of jobs for us. We'd all have multiple offers.  Up til that point our programs were filling up and producing so many faculty, but it was slowing down. The bottom fell out in that next decade. By the mid-2000s so many fewer tenure line jobs were opening. A lot of good, super-smart people were just destroyed in that process. All that investment (time, money, opportunity, hope) and no jobs for many of them. Or every year moving to teach 8 classes a year for 38k. [/quote]

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