The article defends the adjuncts, not the tenured. There are good (if self.-interested) arguments for the latter to support the former: if the substitutes for the tenured are more expensive to hire...
James Devine On Jul 26, 2013 4:30 PM, "raghu" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Talking about access to higher education allows MOOC providers like >> Coursera to avoid discussing the effect their services will have on >> people who work in higher education now. Professors, believe it or >> not, are people, too. They have families and health problems and >> student loans of their own. Moreover, three-quarters of American >> college instructors work on a contingent basis, for a median income of >> $2,700 per course, often without benefits of any kind. Since these >> faculty members also have no chance at tenure, these adjunct faculty >> members would be by far the easiest professors to replace with MOOCs. >> > > > > The good argument against MOOCs: they are nice resources to make available > to the world (like Wikipedia), but only rich assholes from Wall St think > they are a good substitute for a real college education - much less a real > college *experience* of the kind that said rich assholes from Wall St want > for their own children. > > The bad argument against MOOCs: they "affect the terms and conditions of > employment" of tenured college professors. > > The ugly argument against MOOCs: tenured college professors pretending to > care about how they will affect the livelihoods of their adjunct colleagues. > > Tenured college professors like Jonathan Rees are privileged members of a > labor aristocracy that has never given any indication that they give a shit > about the livelihoods of anyone other than themselves. > > Rees should stick to the good arguments against MOOCs that an average > member of the public can be expected to have some sympathy for. > -raghu. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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