The point being, it's a buyer's market: there are so many top tier candidates looking for jobs, the second and third tier schools can afford to take their pick.
Joanna
Eugene Vilensky wrote:
>"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.
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>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?
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>On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:02:28 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi
><furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
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>>"Working-class Academics":
>><http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/12/working-class-academics.html>.
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>>Yoshie
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>>* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
>>* "Proud of Britain": <http://www.proudofbritain.net/ > and
>><http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/>
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