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[quote=Anonymous]As someone with a PhD who has taught at major universities, I thought this story had something in it for everyone's grievances - whiny entitled Gen Z kids, snowplow parents, learning loss during Covid, college admissions with TO, universities designed for 'customer service' instead of learning, contingent faculty (he was on contract, e.g., adjunct.) But for my money the fact that he's 84yo says it all. Even geniuses need to retire. Btw the end of mandatory retirement for professors is destroying academia. No one with tenure ever leaves. 50 years ago, 80% of faculty were tenure or tenure track. Today only 25% are. That means 3/4 of professors in the US have zero job security and really lousy pay and minimal or no benefits at all. And meanwhile tuition is stratospheric. Broken system.[/quote]
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