[lbo-talk] Working-class Academics

[Eugene Vilensky]

"As "lower-status colleges" greatly outnumber "prestigious
research-oriented universities," it is fair to hypothesize that the
majority of college teachers come from working-class backgrounds, by
the standards of the aforementioned researchers' works."
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I disagree.  All 8 state schools in KY have made it a point to "strive
for excellence" which to them means throwing money at top faculty
while driving tuition up 13% per year.  As the elite schools train
many more professors than they can themselves employ, and as podunk
universities such as mine have made their *salaries* competitive (at
the expense of the working / middle classes, i believe), I believe the
trend is for 2nd and 3rd tier professors who have nonetheless attended
top institutions and by the above definition come from privileged
background to take positions at lower status colleges.

Sigh our school president always makes a point to never mention that
being a top institution means having top tuition prices.  But shucks,
who needs more college graduates when they all end up leaving
Kentucky, anyways?

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:02:28 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi
<furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
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