Blog CLXXXIX (189): To Have and Have Not

One of the things that people did not like about the "Systematic Inequality" study that ranked history departments was that it shined a bight light on the fact that there are some big divides withing the profession between the "haves" and the "have not so muchs" and that very, very few people qualify as the "haves."

This video is an excerpt from a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 17, 2015 that focuses on the divide where it really matters: $$. (That is pronounced as "ka-ching.")

The video begins with a question posed by Patty Limerick of the University of Colorado, Boulder and the president of the OAH.  In the video, the comments of Donald W. Rogers of Central Connecticut State University and Katherine Ott of the Smithsonian Institute focus on income disparities between tenure track and adjunct faculty.  Basically, tenure track types make a solid, middle class income, and adjuncts make much less despite their education.

There is a lot that could be said on income disparity.  This video is hardly the last word, but it is a good place to start.