Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Would you advice young people to aspire to be university professors...or is everyone an adjunct these days?
(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.
Why is the bottom falling in every profession I read about?
Everyone seems to work much more than a decade ago to make the same money.
Tech and finance might be the exception.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:R1, humanities field, with strong undergrads programs (think Brown, Gtown, Tufts). Fire away.
My DD is autistic. She’s Level I, very gifted and quite social, but also very rigid and anxious. Until very recently, she wanted to major in STEM. There seem to be more people on the spectrum in STEM and we suspect she’ll have a less difficult time with accommodations and finding her tribe among hard science majors. However, she’s fallen in love with the humanities and social sciences recently. I worry that there’s less acceptance of autistic traits in those fields. Moreover, there’s a lot of figurative language and academic double speak in the humanities that I think she might not grasp. What do you think?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Would you advice young people to aspire to be university professors...or is everyone an adjunct these days?
(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.
Anonymous wrote:I have a PhD in a hard science and decided to start my family and get an office job instead of go the post doc route. I need continual reminders of what a good decision that was because my heart hurts sometimes at the lost opportunity. So thanks OP
Anonymous wrote:R1, humanities field, with strong undergrads programs (think Brown, Gtown, Tufts). Fire away.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Would you advice young people to aspire to be university professors...or is everyone an adjunct these days?
(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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Would you advice young people to aspire to be university professors...or is everyone an adjunct these days?
(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.
Anonymous wrote:There’s no way your salary is what you report it to be, even with an admin component.
Signed,
Social sciences prof who sees salary comparisons across all schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do you heckle your children when they use improper grammar?
Prof kid here. Yes.
That's what I thought. Also a prof. kid.😅
Anonymous wrote:Ugh I am also a prof (not humanities) but humanities profs at my institution start around 60K and don't get north of 100K unless they become chairs or directors or assistant deans. I'm not in a much better situation. Fine with me because spouse is a high earner and my tenure bar is pretty achievable, but amazing how much salaries vary between institutions and disciplines when we all have very similar jobs.
Anonymous wrote:There’s no way your salary is what you report it to be, even with an admin component.
Signed,
Social sciences prof who sees salary comparisons across all schools
Anonymous wrote:Why do most faculty members treat professional staff members as “lesser than” and “the help”—especially when many staff members command higher salaries than faculty?
Anonymous wrote:There’s no way your salary is what you report it to be, even with an admin component.
Signed,
Social sciences prof who sees salary comparisons across all schools