As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia

Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by cs137 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:32AM (#31752008)

You're correct. On the other hand, college tuitions are ridiculous, and the modern university is literally a billion-dollar corporation.

There's no excuse for the academic job market being this lousy when universities have so much money coming in from so many different sources.

The problem is that they spend it all on administration. Paying a "Dean of Multiple-Choice Quantum Intersectionality" $600,000/year is a way for rich white elitists to pretend they care about things they actually don't.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by sseagull on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:55AM (#31752199)

Oh you have absolutely zero argument from me. One problem is the “professionalization” of universities, who are now run by admin “professionals", which removes power from the faculty.

Although one part of this is regulatory burden by the state. This adds lots of overhead which the university would probably rather not have.

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