In your department, do instructors (with MAs) have a vote that weighs as much as that of professorial faculty (with PhDs and graduate faculty status)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for the program?
I am thinking of votes on issues such as curriculum. In one of my departments instructors vote on such matters, and in the other they do not. It is of course in the latter department that the typical instructor is up to date in the field.
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This is kind of historical, going back to my days as a grad student and observer of academic goings on, and kind of off the point. One of my best profs was an M.A. who put together the women’s studies program. She was challenged by the men of the department, all PhDs. One of them sued her on very flimsy grounds (I forget what they were) and the case was thrown out of court. What they did not like, of course, was that her classes were always full and very popular with female students, which meant fewer students for the good old boys.
It’s an important question you ask, though. I hope you can get some helpful answers.
Well, nobody answered so far! What we’ve got are a bunch of very much outdated instructors who behave like the stereotypical deadwood fulls and are given the kind of consideration the stereotypical deadwood full is given by the stereotypical administration, i.e. too d***ed much. They are why we cannot advance, cannot have any common course materials written after about 1965, and so on.
Hiya, I’m a student from Emirates. I have to write an article about the time someone spends on the Internet. I would like to know how much time you spend on internet (day/week/month).
Thanks for your help!
N. Ed.: Greetings. You should construct a survey and send it to real people by e-mail, or at least to the e-mail addresses of bloggers (as opposed to as a comment on their sites). Ask more specific questions, as in time answering mail for work, time working on websites at work or for work, time conducting research via library websites, time reading newspapers, time spent in personal communication, and so on. –Z