So the focus should then be to funnel as many people into a trade as possible? I don’t necessarily disagree, I’m just trying to understand why a faculty position at a university pays so little, given the cost in producing that potential prof.
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Is it A) lousy spending priorities, or B) the combination of a crowded PhD pool and a dearth of positions driving the salary to the bottom? Or both?
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I’m starting to arrive at the conclusion that this might just be another crappy side effect of deindustrialization—fewer trade positions and a general push to get as many people into college as possible, making everyone out-credential each other for fewer available jobs.
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That or I just need sleep
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let's assume that universities are not going to be growing that much more - therefore not many additional academics are needed, only enough to replace retiring ones in that case, if most schools graduates more PhDs than retiring professors each year, they're already oversupplied
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So is there a fix? I suppose there could be a database kept by some academic association of every employed professor and their date of retirement, and students could test at the start of their college career to see if they could get out on a track to replace them.
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universities could stop using grad students to teach classes and also stop taking on ten times as many grad students as have a prayer of finding a job in academia
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we already have the snake fight portion of the thesis defense im not convinced of the marginal value here
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