"Lykke de la Cour gets up weekdays at 4 a.m. She finds she writes her best lectures then; she's too tired at night.
She knows this from preparing hundreds of lectures over 15 years for more than 20 courses at York University about women and the disabled and health and law.
Usually she teaches four full courses a year. Most involve two-hour lectures, she notes – each the equivalent of a 50-page essay."
1. who cares what time she wakes up?
2. if she teaches courses on the same topic each year, why does she need to prepare a 50 page essay for each lecture?
York University lecturer has no PhD, but has been teaching courses for 15 years. She is complaining that she hasn't received tenure. Probably for good reason. Tenured professors do significant research and publish it. They obtain PhDs and post docs. Tenured professors supervise graduate students. Lecturing is a small part of a tenured professor's duty.
de la Cour's and the others seem to have a sense of entitlement. In a similar argument, my dad worked at the same comany for 25 years. He should be entitled to be the CEO.
Anyways, there are thousands of universities around the world which have departments in women's studies. de Cour should try getting tenure at one of these. After all, if you work at the same job for 15 years and continually get passed over for promotion, its probably time for a new job.
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