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DOWN AND OUT IN ACADEMIA
If you left college or university more than 10 or 15 years ago you might be
surprised to know how marginalized the academic life has become for those
engaged in such studies as English, foreign language, comparative
literature, linguistics and classics. The Modern Language Association (MLA)
predicts that fewer than half of the graduates of Ph.D. programs finishing
between 1996 and 2000 will be able to get a full-time, tenure-track job
within a year of finishing their programs. Why are there not enough
full-time jobs to go around? Because 47% of teaching loads in higher
education are handled by part-time graduate students (paid $8,000 to $15,000
for half-time work) or part-time nontenured instructors (with part-time
Ph.D.s often earning about a third of what graduate students get). The MLA
is of two minds about this predicament. One faction says liberal arts
Ph.D.s should forget academia and get a job in the real world (private
investigator, Hallmark greeting card writer, investment banker, astrologer,
speechwriter, book buyer, etc.) The other faction says: join a union.
(Sarah Boxer, "Professors Or Proletarians? A Test For Downtrodden
Academics," New York Times 16 Jan 99) http://www.nytimes.com
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