Article in my Alma Mater Missouri Western's news paper
Read the above link. I've been meaning to share this article for a little while now, and I think it outlines what a heavy dose of bullshit higher education has become, for both students and teachers alike. While the example might be more extreme in higher education institutions like this, it isn't an exclusive problem there. It's one of the main reasons over the last two years that I've really reassessed my intentions as far as going to graduate school. I don't want to triple my debt for two more years of training that won't increase my salary that much. If I invest that kind of money in anything, I'll put it toward equipment. I truely do feel sorry for all the people out there who were duped into dropping upwards of $100,000 into their education and can only get these piddley little $10-20,000 a year jobs, whether it be a growing number of English professors or my news anchor co-workers. [EXPANDED 9/10/12] This is not to say adjunct positions are all bad, because if they bring in someone that is already working professionally, like the cinematography class at Missouri Western I heard is, then it is amazing because people who don't want to work full time as a teacher can make extra cash teaching. It's when people get cornered into using these adjunct positions as their career that the sickness that is so present in higher education today begins to expose itself.
