Part-time PhD...Doable?

[DaveStebbins]

God assures me that he will punish you for that, Dave.

To mangle the old joke...

"The Devil don't scare me none, I was married to his sister for 15 years!"

-Dave

 

[nakia]

Not necessarily. Some of the faculty at UMD only have a Masters. Some don't even have that. At some Universities, you only need equivalent life experience to become a faculty member. Although, I'm speaking from the Theatre department, not History. I'd bet it's a bit more difficult to get degree equivalent "life experience" in history.

-Gertie (who is getting a B.A. in sewing)

This is a good point, but it only applies to a few disciplines. Most fine arts, sure. Occasionally you can do it in business, with successful private work and an MBA. Some engineering schools will let non-PhD engineers do some teaching. It happens in schools of education as well, as full time teachers will go from teaching K-12 to teaching at a university. Most liberal art subjects, though, want PhDs.

And the further down the university chain you go, the more loose the PhD requirement gets. At a university where teaching will be your primary function, the PhD cred of research and grant accumulation will be less important. But the fact of the market now is there are a lot of PhD's for few jobs, so the PhD will take what they can get.

 

[Old One]

And the further down the university chain you go, the more loose the PhD requirement gets. At a university where teaching will be your primary function, the PhD cred of research and grant accumulation will be less important. But the fact of the market now is there are a lot of PhD's for few jobs, so the PhD will take what they can get.

Damn PhDs...grubbing up all the lowly MA jobs !

~ OO