college teaching in NYC: the pay sucks
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20060124/5/1732
Teachers In NYC’s Institutions Of Higher Learning by Andrew Beveridge January, 2006
Although few people would see New York City as a college town, the truth is that the city has the most institutions of higher learning in the entire nation, as well as the most students — and the most teachers as well. At least 25,000 academics teach about 425,000 students in the city’s 57 colleges and universities.
These teachers do much for the city, not just educating the next generation of New Yorkers, but also enhancing the city’s cultural reputation and strengthening its economy.
But what does the city do for them? As a whole, teachers of higher learning in New York earn less than the city’s elementary school teachers.
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