My uncle hit me with this shit last time I told him I was gonna be a college professor. He asked "Are you gonna be the first conservative college professor?" imagine thinking both that you are right and that all of the most educated people disagree with you.
First you have to get a bachelors degree and then an advanced degree. Many will get a masters and a doctorate. In general that means assuming a notable amount of debt.
This means an extended period of no income or very little income.
First employment within their field is likely a low paying job on a short-term contract and lacking any benefits.
If they progress they gain job security and can only be terminated for cause or because of general layoffs for economic reasons. They get paid leave and health insurance and a retirement plan that might have several options.
If they are self-aware, they understand most research dollars especially those dollars that do not suggest conflict of interest in the research come from tax dollars as part of our shared development of national infrastructure.
They understand taxpayers share part of tuition burden with grants, government backed loans and government scholarship programs.
If they are at a public institution they know part of operating costs come from tax dollars whether Federal, State, County or City.
A self aware conservative cannot go through the process of starting with no benefits and roughly minimum wage work to having job security and benefits and not see how those impact a worker nor can they look at the financing of higher ed and not see the common good impact.
They may retain many conservative values but they cannot meet the definition of conservative that controls today.
Walterpoe1 on July 7th, 2019 at 14:21 UTC »
...so they want some way to force colleges to hire conservative professors?
Like an action of some affirmative kind toward hiring them. What would someone call that do you think?
TimBrentwood on July 7th, 2019 at 15:02 UTC »
My uncle hit me with this shit last time I told him I was gonna be a college professor. He asked "Are you gonna be the first conservative college professor?" imagine thinking both that you are right and that all of the most educated people disagree with you.
arkstfan on July 7th, 2019 at 15:45 UTC »
Let us consider the career path of a professor.
First you have to get a bachelors degree and then an advanced degree. Many will get a masters and a doctorate. In general that means assuming a notable amount of debt.
This means an extended period of no income or very little income.
First employment within their field is likely a low paying job on a short-term contract and lacking any benefits.
If they progress they gain job security and can only be terminated for cause or because of general layoffs for economic reasons. They get paid leave and health insurance and a retirement plan that might have several options.
If they are self-aware, they understand most research dollars especially those dollars that do not suggest conflict of interest in the research come from tax dollars as part of our shared development of national infrastructure.
They understand taxpayers share part of tuition burden with grants, government backed loans and government scholarship programs.
If they are at a public institution they know part of operating costs come from tax dollars whether Federal, State, County or City.
A self aware conservative cannot go through the process of starting with no benefits and roughly minimum wage work to having job security and benefits and not see how those impact a worker nor can they look at the financing of higher ed and not see the common good impact.
They may retain many conservative values but they cannot meet the definition of conservative that controls today.