12-15-2010, 05:54 AM
The word "crap" comes from the name of the man who invented the flush toilet, Mr. Crapper. The first toilets were called "crappers" from that we got the word "crap".
As far as UH system teaching salaries go, most positions are non-tenured, especially for professors who are teaching at both the University and Community college level. While there are a few tenured professors doing heavily endowed research who receive high salaries, there are far more who are stringing together multiple part time non tenured positions for low pay and no benefits because they are part time.
My parents were the generation of professors who taught all those baby boomers, theirs was the last generation to get the really cushy professorships, later generations received far less generous pay, retirement and benefit packages.
Carol
As far as UH system teaching salaries go, most positions are non-tenured, especially for professors who are teaching at both the University and Community college level. While there are a few tenured professors doing heavily endowed research who receive high salaries, there are far more who are stringing together multiple part time non tenured positions for low pay and no benefits because they are part time.
My parents were the generation of professors who taught all those baby boomers, theirs was the last generation to get the really cushy professorships, later generations received far less generous pay, retirement and benefit packages.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb