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Huh. Well, you're right, following that dictionary entry, murder would not necessarily be immoral or wrong. Just unlawful. Ponder ponder.

Isn't "murder" by definition an immoral act of killing? I.e. "murder is wrong" would tautological. If so, then no moral realist or anti-realist would say murder is not wrong, just as no one would say a triangle is 4-sided.

Sometimes it is a roll of the dice.

So, I am foolishly going into humanities with the intent to teach, and basically I am shocked at how little teachers get paid. I know, everyone says this. For example, suppose you are teaching one class at a university that charges $450 /credit hour, we're looking at a 3hr course costing $1,350 per student. Suppose the class size is small, like 15-20, then the class generates somewhere between $20,250 and $27000. That one class alone an adjunct is getting paid maybe $700-1000 a credit hour ($2,100-3,000). This means that the most conservative estimate of the revenue the university gets (after instruction fees, but before administrative costs) $17,250 for that one class. Suppose you're tenured and you're taking a 3/4 load, with about 30 students a semester, you're looking at (210 students) x (3 credits) x ($450 /cr hr) = $283,500, but the tenured instructor is getting less than a third, closer to 1/4 of that. ... So my question is, where on earth does the lion share of the revenue (likely over 3/4 of the income) go to??? Of course, these numbers are hypothetical, but (I think) realistic. Some schools the tuition is far more, and the pay rate is barely higher; other schools the tuition is far lower, and the pay rate is far lower. I know there are huge costs related to liability, lawyers, advertising/marketing, buildings and ground maintenance, campus police/security, new building projects, IT/technological backbone, etc. I just don't know how the salaries for educators compares with the salaries of non-educators at the same institution. Does anyone have actual data or studies showing the pies of various schools, where administrative costs are compared with the instruction cost? Does anyone have specifically some salary comparisons, for administrative/staff vs faculty/adjunct?

This. I used similar with HotPads, which showed a heatmap. (I am unsure whether Hotpads still has this function)

I saw on one acceptance letter (super generic) that if it were received after April 15, the recipient has 10 business days from the date it was sent. That was for an MA though.

Awesome! That's a great funding package, sir! CONGRATS, overoverover! Oh! I read it as Ohio University (for their MA). ... I take it Oklahoma has a good PhD program?

Congrats!

Congrats on the funding! Congrats! I hope you like it there! What are your AOIs? I turned down OU for another MA. CONGRATS! Funding?!

I'll be in K-Zoo at Western Michigan Given the relative proximity to U of M (Ann Arbor), MSU (East Lansing), all the colleges in Grand Rapids, Purdue (West Lafayette, IN), WUSTL, Chicagoland, etc. ...I'm open to network! PM me for Facebook, Twitter or email. AOIs are Early Modern, Phil of Religion, and Metaphysics

Attending Western Michigan University for their MA.

BALLSY. Congrats!

This is one of the reasons I love this board

Assuming the bold was supposed to say MA offers, I am tempted to agree. Though I will say some MA programs actually let you reply back by April 17th (not a week later, but definitely after the craziness of the 15th). For example, Western Michigan University.

Or rather... If you hear back from a PhD on the 16th, tell them you are interested and that you need to get release from your MA. Contact the MA and ask if they will release you, since you are contractually obligated on the basis of accepting the offer.

(oops: somehow I didn't see that someone made a thread for TTU exlusively)

Hey, I realize some got shut out this season, so I hope this thread can help people out. Texas Tech's a great funded MA program. They just extended the deadline for applications to May 1st. I will gladly share my research on them if you're interested, as I applied there. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe/15448 Does anyone else know of any extended deadlines? MA, PhD, MPhil, etc?

phildude: I am glad you found some good help! I didn't know what to say. ianfaircloud and isostheneia: I wish we could put something like this in a catalog for future reference. This is so helpful. Also, there is a similar thread posted a little over a month ago:

TJSemantics: we could, w/out making an evaluative grade system for the actual packages, at least provide some publicly available info, like median rent, cost of living, and population of the city/metro. (Figures easily obtained at AreaVibes)

I will answer from the vantage of how I went into the process. I didn't know what the market would be like, so when I applied I basically didn't have high hopes -- just that I would get into a PhD or at least an MA. Well, I got waitlisted at one PhD (but not accepted), and accepted at three MAs with funding. So, in that sense, I got what I was going for. (I applied to two PhDs, one ranked top 30, the other not ranked; I applied to 4 MAs, each mentioned as good terminal ma's on PGR)

It is perfectly acceptable to express interest and ask for any update. If you did not hear yet, I wouldn't expect an offer.

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Man, this has got to suck. I am sorry, dude.

By "new" offers, do you mean, they changed their initial offer? Or just that you were recently accepted at comparable school with better funding/amenities?

What an interesting day with my MA offers! ... I will share soon, but my head is spinning. Meanwhile, in the midst of the craziness, I heard from the last school. Not going to PhD this round.