Salaries and Meaningful Employment

In a post yesterday, I shared a list from PayScale of the 20 job categories for college graduates with the least variation between average starting salaries and average salaries at mid-career. What follows is another list derived from the PayScale data, of the 20 job categories for college graduates for which the highest percentage of…

The Ohio Conference Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Proposing a Legislatively Mandated Ratio of Full-Time Faculty to Administrators

This resolution is the last of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Whereas an analysis of the effectiveness of institutions of higher learning indicated that the ideal ratio for full-time faculty to each administrator should be three to one; (i) Whereas accrediting agencies recognize that having many…

Jobs in Which the Salaries Remain Relatively Flat

  PayScale recently compiled a list of the 20 jobs in which the “salaries go nowhere”: that is, in which the person’s salary in mid-career varies least from their starting salaries. This sort of comparison seems to me to undercut some of the emphasis on how much graduates earn six years out from their graduation…

The Ohio Conference of AAUP Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Opposing Campus-Carry Legislation

This resolution is the third of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Opposition to House Bill 48 Whereas the Ohio Conference AAUP has a commitment to the safety and welfare of its members and their students, and to the educational missions of its members’ institutions; Whereas Ohio House…

Half Right and Half True

The current turmoil on a few college campuses has, of course, led many of us to generalize, to maintain that there’s a new student radicalism in the air, that the chickens of neoliberal disruption are coming home to roost, that coddled and ‘trigger warned’ youths are finally seeing the ‘real’ world and are retreating to…

Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 13-14

Cornwell, Patricia. Post-Mortem. New York: 1990. An award-winning investigative journalist, Cornwell’s first book was a well-received biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, published in the mid-1980s. She subsequently worked as a technical writer and computer analyst with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. This experience inspired…

Within the Supposedly “Common Sense” Talking Points, Fundamental Incoherence

We have been told that charter schools are needed as an alternative to our public schools because our public schools are failing to prepare our children for meaningful immediate employment or for higher education. Of course, despite massive taxpayer subsidies, selective enrollment policies, and the misreporting of the results of standardized tests and other assessments,…

The Ohio Conference of AAUP Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Expressing Support for Wisconsin Faculty

This resolution is the second of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Whereas members of the Ohio Conference AAUP harbor a grave concern that our colleagues in Wisconsin have lost tenure protections and collective bargaining rights; Whereas the members of the Ohio Conference AAUP believe that for…