Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Leaving Academia

Here is an essay about a professor leaving academia. 

I went to U of I.  There were parts of it that I enjoyed, and the culture wasn't that bad.  But I can see parallels.  For me it was more a matter of looking at the way education was going, and deciding not to get involved in public education as a teacher.  It was obviously going down the tubes, and that was decades ago; it's infinitely worse now.  So too, many colleges.  :/  I couldn't stop it.  I could sure get the hell out of the way.
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rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

September 19 2017, 08:57:09 UTC 3 years ago

At the moment there's a rather plaintive article about "Where have all the teachers gone?" showing on yahoo.com.
Naturally they carefully skirted all around the contraversial reasons and they made a few vague moans about not enough pay.
I can't figure out why they bothered to write it since it was a bland rehash of what everyone else has already written.

In most of the colleges I've had anything to do with, the upper management seemed determined to turn them into diploma mills while heisting student fees as high as they possibly could all the while they insisted on pay raises for themselves each and every year, deserved or not.
You were smart to get out while you could.
:^|


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ysabetwordsmith

September 19 2017, 09:26:51 UTC 3 years ago

>>At the moment there's a rather plaintive article about "Where have all the teachers gone?" showing on yahoo.com.<<

Away, which is what often happens when you abuse people.

>>In most of the colleges I've had anything to do with, the upper management seemed determined to turn them into diploma mills while heisting student fees as high as they possibly could all the while they insisted on pay raises for themselves each and every year, deserved or not.<<

Sadly so.

>>You were smart to get out while you could.<<

I have warned other people away too. Sometimes it even works.