Here is an article that should embarrass the author, who is fortunately no longer Chancellor at The New School.
15 hours of teaching per week = 15 hours of preparation, in addition to work on course and curriculum development outside term time, so we are up to 30 hours within term time and we have not yet added in grading, meetings, office hours, and appointments. You’d be looking at at least 45 hours. Note that 15 hours of class = 5 courses, and if they are small courses it is still about 150 people … you are grading for 150 people, which is why I would count at least 15 hours for grading. 15 hours is how long it would take you to dedicate 6 minutes per week to each student’s work if you have 150 students.
David Levy, if he was ever faculty, was clearly not good faculty.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Hahahahaha,
It seems as if the editing tool is not working brother Z!
What an idiot! I know that college. Not many made that salary unless they had been there a long long loooong time. They relied heavily on adjuncts, being a community college, which he clearly doesn’t figure into the average. The college is in the D.C. area, which is expensive.They didn’t require research; but, as you point out, the workload — especially for any class that required writing (and they wanted ALL to require writing) was brutal, not to mention the service requirements AND, if you were at two of the campuses, a long commute to many of those meeting. Faculty regularly worked 60+ hour weeks outside of exams. Then, most of the students weren’t remotely prepared for college.
He also overlooks the fact that, at the beginning of the 20th century, the “vocational” aspect of teaching combined with the class of those who had access to college to ensure that the wealthy became professors — that is, those who did not necessarily NEED the income. On top of that, regardless of class, labor deserves compensation. I highly doubt that he said, “oh, no, please, NYU, DON”T pay me a huge salary! I do this because I LOVE it!”
I can’t even begin to address his ignorance about the intellectual worth of people who don’t get jobs at R1s.
My apologies for the rant. He just set me off! I seriously suspect he has never seen the inside of a classroom.
From WP article:
“David C. Levy, president of the education group at Cambridge Information Group, was the president and director of the Corcoran Gallery and College of Art and Design from 1991 to 2005. He is also a former chancellor of the New School University.”
Does NYU stand for New School University?. Which one is right? Thanks.
Carlos, thank you for catching my various errors on this post!
Keep on ranting, Clio! What is this New School? It looks like it’s the New School for Social Research, but … ??? Here’s a bio of the fool author.
http://www.cig.com/2010/07/26/david-c-levy/
It seems that The New School is an university at New York. Here is a link:
http://www.newschool.edu/about.aspx
That is what I thought. I had more respect for this place before learning today that they had had this person as Chancellor. 80% of their faculty is part time, according to the website.
Honestly.
Jill breaks it down: http://virtualpaperballs.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/the-shelf-life-of-total-b-s/#comment-82