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 so 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 rade t union of the teaching profession ss ion has made it extremely awkward four 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 fea fear r of an investigation this union of pedagogues gues has declared by formal vote that the col lege professor is not as other men i to function properly he is held head to require two things absolute freedom from worry about his job and freedom from all restrictions wo on his classroom utterances or writings the first f would be welcomed by s III y man the second is a source of sv itis faction to countless councle ss teachers wib never in their lives live s had a dangerous or striking thought professor anonymous A B A M X ph D in the american bercu mercury ry |