Sacramento Bee: Younger professors make the grade
Just a few years ago, about half of Sacramento State’s full-time instructors had been teaching longer than most of their students had been alive.
That’s not the case today.
A sea change has taken place in the college’s faculty. Scores of instructors hired during a boom in the late 1960s and early 1970s have retired. They’ve been replaced by teachers half their age.
The trend means the university is losing more teachers like Henry Chambers, a history professor with 40 years on the job. He likes the enthusiasm and fresh knowledge that young instructors bring to the job but thinks it takes a while to learn a great deal about teaching and scholarship.
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