tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134254913286330180.post2212836742985142655..comments2023-11-30T02:21:05.922-08:00Comments on The Unarmed Education Mercenary: I'm NOT your Thought-ExerciseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06953145559944648536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134254913286330180.post-5489763796147697992018-05-19T00:22:45.758-07:002018-05-19T00:22:45.758-07:00Great article, just proving once again why I think...Great article, just proving once again why I think you are so awesome. Number 6 really resonated with me, bu the way. Dr Arik Greenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073516730336013834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134254913286330180.post-83144683850003851232015-08-20T05:44:24.746-07:002015-08-20T05:44:24.746-07:00" teaching is a valuable profession and that ..." teaching is a valuable profession and that students are worth more focus than some esoteric article every couple of years that five people will read. "<br /><br />YES. YES. YES! This is one of the reasons I ultimately left academia...because the fact that I love teaching, and would want to focus on teaching and advising and performing (omg) service to my college, university, and field rather than publishing papers that no one reads, were completely devalued in the field. As a postdoc, my desire to end up at a "teaching institution" were viewed with suspicion, and I was told by the director of the center I worked in that everything else besides publications was "just fluff."<br /><br />I had to escape, but you're absolutely right. The smug TT professors never know when their departments will be eliminated, their colleges will declare financial exigency, or their system will collapse. Moreover, they're unwilling to admit that the labor of underpaid adjuncts and other contingents makes their relatively cushy positions possible. They wouldn't have 2/2 loads with the ability to focus exclusively on scholarship and graduate students if they didn't have adjuncts teaching their composition classes.penthesileiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436004840734951906noreply@blogger.com