No Time for Social Media
by Gordon Haber
Me and my big mouth. I bet the world that it couldn’t show me one example of a securely employed academic risking his or her neck for contingent teachers. And I lost. So now I am desperately learning the lyrics to Der Kommissar.
Rebecca Schuman is getting in on the act. When this petition — which demands that the Department of Labor investigate hiring practices in higher ed — gets 7500 signatures, she will post of a video of herself lip-syncing to a song of our choice.
I demand something by Kraftwerk.
Now, the rate of the Wireless Home Security Cameras can be achieveable for your common consumer, and you could flourishingly
replace the pricey and annoying alarm. Though it is one of the most efficient and value effective
storage method, it also leaves corporations prone to security breaches which could
compromise that information. The prices ranges from several hundred dollars to several thousand based on how complex you got it systems will
be.
When looking at wireless surveillance cameras, it is essential to be sure that what you happen to be doing
will not be unlawful. A home surveillance camera system that also includes “IR” technology
simply means who’s will see moving objects inside
dark.
On the flip side, advisers and prfsseoors have no idea about sacrifices that graduate students have had to make, or even how much they make on their stipends. And this takes them back to the 1970s/1980s when they went to graduate school, when things were done very differently. I’m in a field that is fairly dependent on outside donors. Many faculty are in endowed positions. From my perspective as a graduate student, I just think, They seem so comfortable. I rightfully assumed that they were used to being privileged and not understand their graduate students’ lives.Yet, when I did talk about graduate funding with the senior female scholars, I saw the other side of their cozy lives and realized how, because of them, privileged I am today. Their experiences allowed me to understand how they advise graduate students on funding and money. In my particular field, women were not allowed to receive any kind of funding to study at the time. It was quite unheard of in the larger community for women to seriously study these topics. If it was any other topic or discipline, no big deal. So these senior scholars broke the glass-ceiling. Fortunately, like many other women at the time, they married young. Their husbands paid for their education. Some managed to get teaching work. Others inherited family money. From that standpoint, they accepted that kind of reality and expressed gratitude to their supportive spouses and families. The idea of women gaining any kind of funding to study these topics was so far-fetched. (to put in comparative picture, my undergraduate adviser in the same discipline was in a high-demand field so her graduate education was readily paid for by her department.)Fast forward to 2012. When I discussed my highly competitive funding packages with them (while weighing my decisions), they were absolutely shocked. TWO years of fellowships?! FIVE years of support?! They knew things had changed- female graduate students were now being funded, there’s greater equality. It was difficult for them to absorb the fact that they had to endure unequal treatment so that the next generation of female scholars like me could receive equal funding. Perhaps, it was our level of friendship that elicited their moments of epiphany and emotional reactions.Given what they had and looking at today’s seemingly wealthy graduate students, how can they best advise? What’s considered good investment? If able to find resources (so to speak), which conferences are worth it? Research trips? Where is the limit before one should consider leaving academia, simply because resources were drained and there was no additional productivity to be happening? And, oh, not to mention that student debt didn’t exist then and so there’s another layer of mystery there for them, if they’re aware that student debt DOES exist,- are their advisees in debt from previous degree(s)?With student loans these days, it will soon become increasingly difficult for graduate students to maintain above-poverty lifestyle, if they do choose to continue paying down while enrolled. Advisers need to be more cognizant of this possibility and work harder to find additional funding to help reduce the risk of the advisee going further into debt in the name of professionalization and job searches. I have just told my (new, mid-career) adviser, No additional support, no research while evaluating a potential grant source. Most young people, unfortunately, aren’t financially savvy and can’t see the long view the way that their advisers has the ability to do for them.