"GE and the MLA have crunched some of these numbers, I think, and the problem isn't jobs being converted or overproduction of PhDs, it's that full-time jobs are disappearing for good. At the same time, the total number of students keeps going up."
Do you think this will result in the increasing radicalization of the faculty? or the opposite? What do people who are teaching notice going on right now? My son is currently attending SF State and tells me that all his teachers are Marxists/socialists: he takes a wide variety of courses. This is good and it seems to also go along with his being interested in school for the first time in his life.
Joanna