In the 2020 presidential Democratic primary, several prominent potential nominees have endorsed once-unimaginable levels of government aid for college students.
Some 42 million Americans would benefit, especially 75% of those with federal government-funded college debt.
Warren's plan ostensibly helps poorer students and minorities climb up the economic ladder into well-paying middle-class jobs, but left unsaid is that college professors and administrators would appear to be even greater beneficiaries.
Cancelling student debt and free tuition at public colleges may help millions of American youngsters obtain diplomas and be debt-free, but the parchment hardly guarantees a good job.
Yes, many tenured faculty, particularly at elite schools, enjoy job security, but contrary to popular stereotypes, being a college professor or administrator is no longer the safe, guaranteed-for-life cushy job it once was.
Now the key question: can these free college tuition schemes boast overall college enrollments and thus provide the lifeboat that will rescue thousands of soon to be unemployed academics? The answer is "No," and free college will only exacerbate the cutting of traditional faculty positions.
Why would a state school want to employ a middle-aged tenured professor of psychology from a defunct private liberal arts college when it could hire a far cheaper freshly-minted Ph.D. or, better yet, a dirt-cheap part-time adjunct to teach the same courses?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/free_tuition_and_forgiving_student_debt_will_not_save_radical_college_faculty.html
Some 42 million Americans would benefit, especially 75% of those with federal government-funded college debt.
Warren's plan ostensibly helps poorer students and minorities climb up the economic ladder into well-paying middle-class jobs, but left unsaid is that college professors and administrators would appear to be even greater beneficiaries.
Cancelling student debt and free tuition at public colleges may help millions of American youngsters obtain diplomas and be debt-free, but the parchment hardly guarantees a good job.
Yes, many tenured faculty, particularly at elite schools, enjoy job security, but contrary to popular stereotypes, being a college professor or administrator is no longer the safe, guaranteed-for-life cushy job it once was.
Now the key question: can these free college tuition schemes boast overall college enrollments and thus provide the lifeboat that will rescue thousands of soon to be unemployed academics? The answer is "No," and free college will only exacerbate the cutting of traditional faculty positions.
Why would a state school want to employ a middle-aged tenured professor of psychology from a defunct private liberal arts college when it could hire a far cheaper freshly-minted Ph.D. or, better yet, a dirt-cheap part-time adjunct to teach the same courses?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/free_tuition_and_forgiving_student_debt_will_not_save_radical_college_faculty.html
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