• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    In my personal experience, it usually means doing 80% of the professor’s work for minimum wage pay so the $140k/yr prof can fuck off and go brown-nose the school Board of Trustees all term.

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      5 months ago

      The Prof might be doing other research too, as universities aren’t just for teaching undergrads. He might be advancing science in his field