Show anonymous college professor says he has soft job calls teaching sinecure it generally is assumed that college teachers are underpaid that is tommyrot for the amount of mental and physical energy expended the college professor is better paid than the average lawyer or doctor take my own case at the age of thirty six I 1 hold the rank of associate professor and I 1 draw an annual salary of for teaching 12 hours a week during a 9 month year my class preparation now that ive been through my lectures several times requires less than an hour a day and an assistant does all such menial chores as roll taking and paper grading how else could I 1 earn as much honestly and as easily security of tenure is better than in any other profession lest it be the army the american association of university professors the trade union of the teaching profession has made it extremely awkward tor for a college to fire a teacher unless he is actually caught drunk dirty and with a coed on each knee its inconceivable to the association that a man might be discharged for incompetence as in a railroad office tenure and academic freedom are the two great rallying cries of the A A U P and the rumor that either is being endangered will make the stoutest college president sweat in fear of an investigation this union of pedagogues gues has declared by formal vote that the col lege professor is not as other men to function properly he is hem heh to require two things absolute freedom from worry about his job prid end freedom from all restrictions on his classroom utterances or writ birs the first would be welcomed bv oly man the second is a source R 0 t is faction to countless teachers wo never in their lives had a dangerous or striking thou thought professor anonymous A B A X al ph D in the american mercury |