Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor

An anonymous reader writes "For those of you who wonder just exactly what it is that your advisor is up to when you try to find him and meet with him, The Chronicle of Higher Education has a study on the Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor."

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Keep in mind

[BluedemonX]

this is a LIBERAL ARTS professor critique....

Most of em are massive bullshit artists anyway. Give em tenure and they become workshy bullshit artists. Teaching gets shoved off to whatever grad student is currently being suckered by the mirage of a tenured professorship for herself as a reward for such gruntwork: as for research, enh, this is liberal arts, just paint a painting (hurl some paint at a canvas) instead or something and call it interdisciplinary arts or some such crap. Hold a party every now and then and enjoy the carnality of those who're away from home for the first time. Rinse, lather, repeat, buy new Tweed Jacket, red wine, reggae albums, Volvo SUV and whatever hip liberal gobshite is the flavour of the we(e/a)k.

Re:Keep in mind

[BluedemonX]

RE: How did this get modded up?

Because it was relevant, insightful, and amusing.

RE: liberal arts includes many disciples. Economics, History, Political Science, etc, etc. Not "hurl crap at a canvas"

Oh, my GOD. You are naive and new to the Liberal arts world. Let me explain. Writing something that 20,000,000 grad students attempting to get Ph.D's in your subject haven't already considered and done would be time consuming, and work. But, if you can try and hawk some stock options out of some tech company (e.g. working on an interdisciplinary field relating history and historical context.... TO THE INTERNET. Consulting fees ka-ching!) in lieu of work, or try cross-pollinating (art as it pertains to political science, e.g. you throw paint at a canvas, some grad student writes a load of bollocks about how it epitomises all your pet theories, you publish, no work...) you get the salary and the tenure, with no actual effort.

RE: I could just as easily make fun of the CS deparatment at most colleges consiting mainly of smelly professors who can't teach and have no social skills.

Yeah, but without the university, they'd still find work. Please tell me, outside of having a job at McDonalds frying something, or being a tenured professor, where there's a legitimate job doing things like philosophy or Hegelian Dualism.

RE: But please, continue your ignorance and prejudice it does make you look oh so smart.

Dude, I'm a B.A. in Liberal Arts. And I'm summa cum laude, because I could sling the bullshit like the best of them. But I didn't want to spend the rest of my life regurgitating my professor's pet theories and neuroses verbatim until I finally was the one in fifteen million people applying for tenure who gets it, at which point I'd be the one skiving off doing actual work and teach my own pet theories and neuroses instead..... so I retrained in something practical.

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