Survey Finds 40% Of Colleges Have ZERO GOP Professors

[Dill]

(05-08-2018, 12:17 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: These should never be permanent jobs. To teach you should also have some real world experience.   A lot of these people never leave the classroom.

Benton already answered the misunderstanding about "permanent jobs."

I ask how you know that "a lot of these people" don't have "real world experience"?  

First of all, subject matters are very different.   How does a teacher of ancient Greek get "real world experience"? 

And what counts as "real world experience" for, say, a university marching band conductor? 

Where do professors of education get their "real world experience''--except by teaching? Which you think is not "real world experience."

Would you say that a university archeologist with 6 graduate students working on a site in the Middle East is not getting "real world" experience in archeology?   How about a team of university oceanographers with their graduate students doing research on oxygen depletion in the Caribbean?

Then there is the plain fact that many, if not most, college professors DO have "real world experience."  Business and Econ professors regularly work in  the private sector.  Same for many social scientists.  

I know a professional artist who was a college professor on the side.

The nearby Allegheny Observatory--like most around the world--is manned by college professors whose "real world" job is research. An astronomer or an astrophysicist who went work for a private corporation might be degrading his status and knowledge.

Most of the world's basic research is done in universities by professors. And that is where they get "real world experience"--not outside but inside the university.