Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > i'm not sure that's the same thing. subcontractors can be whole companies, > even if they're only a handful of people, but they can be much bigger. also, > they are often paid well. > right?
maybe in the near future, universities will subcontract teaching out to various corporations. Here at LMU, we already subcontract out the bookstore, campus security, the food service, and campus printing services. It's partly because the Jesuits who run the university feel (and are) incompetent when it comes to non-academic stuff. (Our bookstore was subcontracted out to a company that buys and sells used books (Follette). Can anyone guess what kind of incentives that produces?) > and there's no analog to tenure. in non-academic jobs, sometimes higher-level or unionized employees have something akin to tenure (though usually it's weaker) once they get beyond the probation period. In law and medicine, they have something even more like tenure, i.e., being made a partner. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
