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    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

  6. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

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    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

Average Faculty Salaries for 2005-06 (Leiter)

Via the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription access only), covering 4-year institutions for the academic year 2005-06.  The average full professor of philosophy (note:  philosophy is lumped with religious studies) earned $82,030, compared to $76,413 for an English professor, $80,706 in History, and $84,059 in Mathematics.  The average new Assistant Professor of Philosophy earned $46,780, compared to $45,882 in English, $45,723 in History, and $50,151 in Mathematics.  Average salaries at the major research universities are, of course, higher (for example, the average salary of a full professor, across all fields, at a doctoral institution is over $100,000), but this data on averages across all four-year institutions probably gives a more realistic picture of compensation.

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