User blog comment:Anglophilebg/Community Colleges discriminating against PhDs?/@comment-66.26.121.44-20100518125646

This is an excellent question, poster. My feeling is that community colleges would rather hire people with MAs. It's not necessarily that they "won't hire PhDs" as a matter of policy, but that MAs tend to have a lot less invested in the educational process than PhDs, and are therefore--or so the thinking goes--more likely to tow the party line (whatever that might be), more readily take a backseat to the whims of senior faculty members (the all-important seniority hierarchy), and to generally be more pliable and accepting of the many (often downright bizarre) rigors of most community colleges in the United States.

If anyone else has any feedback, I'd be very interested to hear...