Do professions that have mandatory retirement ages actually make up the majority of employment? Doesn’t seem so…
What is unusual among some faculty jobs is tenure.
Florida State is starting to sell facemasks from their student bookstore. Still no word on whether they will be bringing students back to campus in the fall.
I’m reposting this, originally posted by @AlwaysMoving on a different thread:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_80c84ad4-95fc-11ea-8123-1bcb30b80a97.html
The SEC presidents are voting on whether to bring football players back to campus in early June. That is, the vote will be soon, and the players would actually return to campus on June 1 or June 15 if the proposal passed.
Note that green status (new normal) presumes an effective vaccine being available, so yellow status is the lowest risk of the statuses that are reasonably possible for the next academic year.
Yes.
However, it can be logistically difficult if the college or some of its departments are small enough that some important courses (for prerequisite sequencing) are only offered once per year (or even less often), so potentially up to a third of students would not be able to take it.
Of course, when most students are restricted to attending public colleges in commuting range because they cannot afford even an economy-class residential college away from home, that increases the trend of college opportunities being more based on your parents’ circumstances and choices, rather than your own academic achievement.
The typical example is that, in much of Pennsylvania, a student from a lower or middle income family will have difficulty studying engineering, because it is absent at most of the PASSHE schools that are just barely affordable to lower income commuters (but unaffordable for lower income students who need to live at or near the campus; the CSHE schools are even less affordable).
This may have been discussed earlier, but it looks like Stanford–like Amherst and Columbia–is considering the model of bringing students onto campus on a rotating basis for one “session” (they’re on the quarter system) at a time.
Seems like it would also depend on their age. I would never expect to find an “industry job” at my age. I don’t plan on even trying. I’ll be more than fine with retiring to my hobbies if I end up downsized because of this.
Age…the great equalizer…
So…is the consensus that returning students on going to have to wipe down their own desks and chairs just as gym users are expectd to do?
Yes. That’s exactly what we’re looking at in my department. VAPs, adjunct, forget it. Not budgeted. Unless you’re teaching in a department that cannot function without adjuncts – like there aren’t enough tenured faculty and contracted lecturers to do the job – work’s going to be thin on the ground.
Some tenured faculty will push back on the basis of their contracts, but…well, it’ll depend on what kind of money they bring in and how tight those contracts are.
1099 employees don’t get unemployment, but, thankfully, they’re getting much more attention than they did in '08. Just still not enough.
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, the father of deep learning who is responsible for the current resurrection of AI, is 73. He’s the star attraction for many students, and even faculty, to go to UofT. Google even built a lab in Toronto and Prof. Hinton was the primary reason.
I think there’s a lot of reason to agree with this, but some of those people stick around because they have no money. Pensions ended a long time ago for a lot of universities, and smart in sociology doesn’t necessarily mean smart in money. TIAA-CREF’s turned into a looting project, and faculty tend to spend more than they can afford on their kids’ education. Health benefits aren’t what they were, either.
It’s at least as much to do with the flexibility and entrepreneurialism of the person as it is with the field. Things just aren’t that rigid. They’re not hiring you because of your depth in Defoe, put it that way.
I suppose that might be a state-by-state thing. My sister, an adjunct at a community college in California, regularly goes on unemployment when she’s not given any classes. So do the other adjuncts.
I’m pretty sure that’s the case already in most states. There’s been huge consolidation/elimination of majors in universities nationwide over the past 20 years. Some of it is due to changing economics, but some is simply a reaction to academic trends, which, like fashion, do change over time.
That’s for sure. More than 70% of all faculty positions today are non-tenure track.
They announced today at Mount Holyoke College that they would be following the Beloit Model; they won’t be having classes during summer, but instead of having two semesters, they will have four quarters where you take two classes each. They say this will help them stagger class times so there will be less general movement across campus at any given time.
Also, it sounds like Columbia University isn’t doing a thing where you are on-campus for two out of three semesters; from their announcement, it sounds like courses for everyone will be stretched over all three terms, and to me it sounds like students would have to pick one of the three to do online.
https://president.columbia.edu/news/update-research-and-next-academic-year
@ChemAM I don’t love that idea. Just two classes for seven and a half weeks? Pretty boring. And intense. Shoving 14 weeks worth of work into seven is rough. I mean how fast can students pick up the pace in any class? Instead of maybe three hours of class a week for one class, it will be six and twice as much work of course. How does that pace affect math or science classes? Or classes with a lot of reading and writing? I can’t imagine S19 having to read twice as much each week as he had to for the last history class he took. OMG. It would be like 300 pages a week at least. I think he had four tests and four papers in that class so he’d have a test and a paper due every week and a half? Yikes.
@homerdog I think it’s much better than the three-semester option. Not gonna lie, having to potentially do a semester without your friends sounds absolutely MISERABLE to me (though I recognize that is probably not what the universities are considered about; just my personal preference).