March 7, 2003

Professors Are Finding Better Pay and More Freedom at Community Colleges

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

Faculty members, frustrated with conditions at 4-year institutions, embrace the 2-year mission

Only lackluster Ph.D.'s who can't find jobs at four-year institutions aspire to teach at community colleges, with their heavy course loads and unprepared students. Work there and risk killing your academic career. So goes the stereotypical advice given to graduate students.

Sean P. Murphy didn't heed that warning.

He chose to work as an associate professor of English at the

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