I thought the D in JD was for delinquent. 
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Who “fact checks” a joke? And I think that if you actually had checked anything, you would also have found that folks who earn doctorate degrees are also called “Professor” along with Fred, Jane, Joe, and Florence, just to name a few… Some are even called “quacks…”
It was a joke, the original writer said he was the “most experienced, sharpest and most efficient guys in the shop,” however, when you have nothing to measure it against, comparisons are meaningless.
For example, I am the faster runner in my neighborhood, but it does not mean I will be running the Olympics any time soon…
But here are the Facts!!!
Most medical schools in the US confer upon graduates a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, although some confer a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree, and a few offer combined programs where graduates earn both a bachelor’s degree and an MD or DO.
So BoBo, put that in your tail pipe and smoke it…
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Species survival and individual survival are two different things. Judging something by appearances might work well taken across the experience of an entire species, but that’s small comfort to the individual cricket who incorrectly judges that the trapdoor spider’s burrow is safe.
I’m married to a PhD. No one calls her “professor.” Occasionally they’ll call her “doctor” in a professional setting. Mostly they just use her name.
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“Professor” only applies to someone with a doctorate who teaches. Many don’t.
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you don’t need to have a doctorate to be called “Professor”. I (am technically still, we haven’t held my classes for a few years due to low enrollment in the class) a professor at a local community college, but I don’t have a doctorate. I do carry the highest level certification in my field of practice, though.
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I actually had a professor in college who didn’t have a college degree at all. He wasn’t tenured…just taught ONE class (APL). He was a retired IBM technician who was one of the original writers/designers of APL (A Programming Language). When he retired he moved north to Syracuse and taught at SU. He was more then qualified.
You’ll also find many college professors these days who only have a Masters degree because colleges have a hard time filling these positions. Only tenured professors make decent money. Most of the professors are part time. I know one part time professor who teaches at 4 different Boston colleges. She teaches 1 or 2 classes at (MIT, Harvard, BU and BC). Works 60-80 hours a week for a pay of about $40,000.
Good point. I know some MFA (Master of Fine Arts) professors who are called “professor” because there is no doctoral degree offered in their fields.
I guess you could call a college teacher ‘professor’, regardless of degree. My point was that many folks without a doctorate aren’t called ‘professor’.
That was likely an “instructor” position rather than an assistant prof., associate prof., or full professor. It’s also common to hire teachers who didn’t attend college for non-accredited programs a community college might offer, like truck driving or a mechanical certification.
By the early 1990s, most accrediting bodies forced colleges and universities to adopt a “terminal degree in the field” standard for tenure track positions and a “at least 18 graduate-level credit hours in the discipline” for adjunct instructors and grad students who teach.
Today - MAYBE. But back in the 70’s if you taught at a major university you were called a Professor. He was actually one of the few part time Professors back then. Today part time college teachers account for about 80-90 percent of all college teachers.
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True, but don’t most of them have PhDs? The ‘adjunct’ professor (he worked in industry taught a course on the weekends, had an MS from Stanford) we had, we addressed as ‘Mr.’.
But a lot do. It really depends on their major. The woman I know from example I posted has a PHD in English Lit. There’s not a lot of jobs for a PHD in English Lit or History. So they teach.
That’s outrageous, considering the amount of schooling that person probably has
Blue collar guys with no degree whatsoever typically make considerably more than that
Guys in the shop made more with overtime than the supervisors.
This is a dirty secret of many high level schools.
Yup. She does it because she loves to teach. Her Hubby is a VP at a local tech company so money isn’t an issue for them. You can’t live in $40k/yr in the Boston area.
Part Time College Professor Annual Salary ($38,541 Avg | Jul 2021) - ZipRecruiter
You only get paid for the time in the classroom. Grading papers or exams or other projects - no pay.
Which is incredibly stupid. This means Steven Spielberg would be forbidden from teaching filmmaking as a college professor. Tom Brokaw could not teach journalism courses. And some guy named Ray Magliozzi couldn’t teach any broadcast courses. Just asinine.
Several years ago my old company hired a summer temp, who kept coming back to work for 3 or 4 summers. She had her PhD and was teaching in 3 to as many as 6 colleges, some of them several hours from her house. They were constantly jerking her around, adding and subtracting classes seemingly randomly, and tenure was off the table. She earned more working for us (and trust me, we didn’t pay her well) than she did working for the colleges.
Some of those places charge enough in tuition to buy a new luxury car every year, but they pay their professors less than you could make working at a hardware store, and you’d have more job security selling hammers.
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Don’t those people all have honorary doctorate degrees from their money-seeking alma maters? That would credential them to teach at the university level, would it not?
Honestly, I think we have a pretty good system. If/when rich people from other countries stop sending their children to American universities, it will be a sign of decline.