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The New Age Prof
Critical Perspectives on Accounting 18 (2007) 89–90
The New Age Prof
They’re all bleeding. Poor little lecherers running their little legs off On the giant treadmill. Under the pump. That’s what they are. Pushing class hours and marking pens In the tertiary engine room. But its for the greater good, isn’t it? More students. More staff. More computers. More export dollars. Mind you – no saleable product means no jobs! It’s the new way. Nice and clear. Nice and clean. Nice and simple. Even an undergraduate could understand it. Thing is, How to play the new game? Nice guys come last, remember! So listen up. Get smart. Build a product. Never mind the punters – marketing will find some Feeble minds with money for tickets. Make it streamlined, Packaged, Mass deliverable, Transportable, And low effort deliverable. 1045-2354/$ – see front matter © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2005.03.002
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The New Age Prof / Critical Perspectives on Accounting 18 (2007) 89–90
You know! Teachable by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Never mind the quality, Feel the width! Sorry, Must fly. Got stuff to do. Subbed out all the marking. Need to get those postgrad publications. All for their own good of course. Share the research dollars. You know. What’s theirs is mine and What’s mine aint theirs. I mean look at it this way – their turn’ll come. You know. Get a ride on their juniors’ backs. But they havta earn the right, Don’t they! Hang on. Is that the time? Clock’s against me. Faculty committee – a big one. Expansion strategy for next year. Must get our cut of the action. Look, you go tell them. Tell who? C’mon, do me a favour. My postgrads of course. Tell ‘em: Prof’s name on all their papers! Thanks a million. Lee Parker
The New Age Prof
They’re all bleeding. Poor little lecherers running their little legs off On the giant treadmill. Under the pump. That’s what they are. Pushing class hours and marking pens In the tertiary engine room. But its for the greater good, isn’t it? More students. More staff. More computers. More export dollars. Mind you – no saleable product means no jobs! It’s the new way. Nice and clear. Nice and clean. Nice and simple. Even an undergraduate could understand it. Thing is, How to play the new game? Nice guys come last, remember! So listen up. Get smart. Build a product. Never mind the punters – marketing will find some Feeble minds with money for tickets. Make it streamlined, Packaged, Mass deliverable, Transportable, And low effort deliverable. 1045-2354/$ – see front matter © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2005.03.002
90
The New Age Prof / Critical Perspectives on Accounting 18 (2007) 89–90
You know! Teachable by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Never mind the quality, Feel the width! Sorry, Must fly. Got stuff to do. Subbed out all the marking. Need to get those postgrad publications. All for their own good of course. Share the research dollars. You know. What’s theirs is mine and What’s mine aint theirs. I mean look at it this way – their turn’ll come. You know. Get a ride on their juniors’ backs. But they havta earn the right, Don’t they! Hang on. Is that the time? Clock’s against me. Faculty committee – a big one. Expansion strategy for next year. Must get our cut of the action. Look, you go tell them. Tell who? C’mon, do me a favour. My postgrads of course. Tell ‘em: Prof’s name on all their papers! Thanks a million. Lee Parker