tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349025651070168896.post3418664906115273566..comments2024-02-10T02:51:24.273-07:00Comments on Mom, Ph.D.: Paying professors NOT to teach?! Yes.Mom, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06382723864273701137noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349025651070168896.post-37362882580711433102010-12-21T22:27:04.391-07:002010-12-21T22:27:04.391-07:00Thanks for the post on facebook WoPro! And I like...Thanks for the post on facebook WoPro! And I like the idea suggested in your earlier comment re. professors publicizing our heavy workload by making public our to-do lists. My drudgery list is now posted on my blog. Izzabitz and TiredProf--how about posting your to-do lists. Fight the Power!Mom, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06382723864273701137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349025651070168896.post-63684718352678047082010-12-21T19:15:24.621-07:002010-12-21T19:15:24.621-07:00I fear we are headed here, too, though there's...I fear we are headed here, too, though there's no "sabbatical fund" in this state (departments either don't offer the class or reassign it to someone else, often for an overload). We professors(collectively) need to do a better job of telling the taxpayers what it is that we do, in plain English. <br /><br />I live in a small, pretty conservative town and find that lots of townsfolk who aren't associated with "the College" see faculty as a bunch of snobs who don't work very hard and have it pretty easy. We've taken furloughs, pay cuts, and benefit cuts, but still there's the aura of privilege (though I make $20,000 less than a colleague in the same job in a nearby state/state school...and I'm in the humanities, so it's not much of a salary to start). The trick, I think, is to explain what we do and the benefits (to them) of sabbaticals and not sound so condescending... After the recent election (here, at least), it's the not-very-good-in-school folks who are now in charge, and they're loaded for bear... <br /><br />And I need mine too (15 year w/o). Will hope I can apply next year before they cancel them.TiredProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162370630018949849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349025651070168896.post-7175610933116837062010-12-21T16:27:58.658-07:002010-12-21T16:27:58.658-07:00I posted a link to this on my Facebook page (didn&...I posted a link to this on my Facebook page (didn't see pingback here so not sure if Blogger notifies you) and there's already a 'like' for it, yay!WorstProfEverhttp://www.worstprofessorever.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349025651070168896.post-33789189542404499322010-12-21T05:51:34.034-07:002010-12-21T05:51:34.034-07:00How dare the Iowa legislature interrupt your sleep...How dare the Iowa legislature interrupt your sleep! This is yet another sign of the rampant anti-intellectualism of contemporary American society. There's a basic misunderstanding about what professors do, that if we're not in the classroom we're not working, and we're not in the classroom enough; we spend too much time sitting around plotting how to turn our nation's children into gay Socialists. It's appalling that intellectual work has to be justified financially.izzabitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16731088832706975927noreply@blogger.com