You and I had very different college experiences, I had maybe a handful of professors who were worthless but most of them actually knew wtf they were talking about and were experts in their fields (many of whom were still working in addition to teaching).
One thing I will say is that it's been much more institution based. Usually the quality instructors are clustered.
And it's not clustered in "perceived" quality of institutions. I've been to some community colleges and 'backwoods' universities, as well as research one, top tier schools. No correlation between institutional reputation and instruction quality. What I will say is that the schools where instructors are more empowered and in control, the instruction was far higher quality.
Edit: I guess what I'm trying to say is: teaching is easily the hardest part. Noone in academia except for some masochists want to teach more than the bare minimum. Everyone wants to do the "work in addition".
Job negotiations revolve around how much of your life you have to spend in the classroom and how much you can do your other work. The other work can be academic research or industry collaborations or consulting, but that just depends on individual preferences. I prefer the academic option because I can do whatever I want, others prefer industry because it can pay better
Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.
Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn't really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough, so it's harder to apply elsewhere. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.
Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn't complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it's not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you're full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that's the exception.
I'm not going to disclose my background for privacy reasons, but regardless of the reasons behind such positions, they exist and are fairly commonplace.
Agreed. I think it may be influenced by the degree in question. BSChE had some top level folks. One was prominent enough to figure out and have his own method.
I just checked again and he’s put out a ton of papers and been cited literally thousands of times. Probably explains why he forgot to come to class sometimes. Banging away on papers in the office.
Pretty neat considering how little I’ve accomplished.
31 Comments
homes@piefed.world · 20 pts · 181d
Hold the fuck up… Have I been doing dick pills the wrong way all these decades?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 181d
they're dick pills. do you not shove them in your dick hole?
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 181d
I mean, I thought so…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 181d
i mean most of the ones i been buying don't turn into dicks they turn into dinosaurs. i need to know who to get my money back from
homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 181d
Am I really the crazy person for just swallowing the dick pills?
sundray@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 181d
Mr. Pills assures me that you are very talented and sane.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
hey if you want a stomach full of dinosaur dick you go ahead and dont test your dick pills
edit: yeah i just heard what i said and realized what part of the internet i said it to
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 181d
That really seems like self-contradictory advice
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
life is self-contradictory. like gas station burritos
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 181d
You and I had very different college experiences, I had maybe a handful of professors who were worthless but most of them actually knew wtf they were talking about and were experts in their fields (many of whom were still working in addition to teaching).
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 181d
It's a mixed bag. I've had both extremes.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 181d
That's life in a nutshell.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 181d
One thing I will say is that it's been much more institution based. Usually the quality instructors are clustered.
And it's not clustered in "perceived" quality of institutions. I've been to some community colleges and 'backwoods' universities, as well as research one, top tier schools. No correlation between institutional reputation and instruction quality. What I will say is that the schools where instructors are more empowered and in control, the instruction was far higher quality.
udon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d
As a teacher this made me chuckle
Edit: I guess what I'm trying to say is: teaching is easily the hardest part. Noone in academia except for some masochists want to teach more than the bare minimum. Everyone wants to do the "work in addition".
Job negotiations revolve around how much of your life you have to spend in the classroom and how much you can do your other work. The other work can be academic research or industry collaborations or consulting, but that just depends on individual preferences. I prefer the academic option because I can do whatever I want, others prefer industry because it can pay better
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 181d
Didn't you have to go to college? If so, I am very surprised you've never heard of adjunct professors, professors of practice, or visiting lecturers.
udon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.
Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn't really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough, so it's harder to apply elsewhere. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.
Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn't complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it's not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you're full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that's the exception.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 181d
I'm not going to disclose my background for privacy reasons, but regardless of the reasons behind such positions, they exist and are fairly commonplace.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
Agreed. I think it may be influenced by the degree in question. BSChE had some top level folks. One was prominent enough to figure out and have his own method.
I just checked again and he’s put out a ton of papers and been cited literally thousands of times. Probably explains why he forgot to come to class sometimes. Banging away on papers in the office. Pretty neat considering how little I’ve accomplished.
flandish@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 181d
that next tree tree question
sundray@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 181d
A tree, you say? Interesting... how about this one:
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 181d
A very fucked up spine.
sundray@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 181d
Just one vertebrae of it, but yes.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 181d
A woman wearing a dress with a pony tail watching her reflection in a pond (90° turned to the right)
sundray@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 181d
Close, it's my mother wearing a sweater in heaven.
GreenDust@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 180d
lauseta@piefed.social · 5 pts · 181d
who made this? it looks crazy good
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 181d
someone who huffed 200 dick pills
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 181d
You could have done both.
texture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
this is a really strong example of whatever this is.
edit - just realized what sub im in. lol
udon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
No, it's a picture that represents a tree
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 181d
C'est nes pa un arbre