links for 2007-08-20
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Who controls higher education? Henry A. Giroux argues in his new book that academe has ceded too much power to the worlds of business and the military. In The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Paradigm), he ou
Peter Norvig: The core of what we do is still search and advertising. A lot of researchers are working on that. They're working to give better-quality search results and to match ads better. Another area of research is gathering more sources of informatio
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Don't even get me started on higher education! Here's another thing about them....
Prior to teaching at DPS, and now during the summer, I teach at a community college. Their "thing" is now to have as many adjuncts as possible. This works out very well indeed for the school, as they pay the adjuncts $50 or less an hour, no benefits, no guarantee of future employment. Also, you live and die by your class reviews. Mine were great, thank goodness, but if I had had any irate students, I would have been out of there.
Having said that, I will say that I love my job there, but....
Now, of course tenured professors have their problems (I got a lot of students who flunked this one particular dude's class and were rather bitter), but I also have a problem with hiring people off the street, shoving them into a class and just seeing how they do.
See? I told you I shouldn't have gotten started!!! :)
Posted by: TeacherPatti | August 20, 2007 at 10:23 AM