User blog comment:Anglophilebg/Community Colleges discriminating against PhDs?/@comment-130.91.195.97-20151002152927

If you look at the stats nationally, CCs show a clear preference for hiring MAs over PhDs; 2/3s of all faculty have MAs, vs 1/5 with PhDs. And if you look at many job listings for CC faculty, a clear majority of them specify they are looking for MAs, i.e. the candidate must have an MA. Many PhDs don't even have MA's anymore, particularly in the biology arena, and hence they are excluded given the speicificity of the listing. My father actually was rejected from a CC position because he has a PhD. He was told that they were concerned he wouldn't be able to "relate" to the CC students as well, even though he explained that as he was coming from the CSU system, he taught the same students - i.e. many students go from CC to CSU in CA. So yes it's a racket for MAs and they like to exclude PhDs. Whether or not this is discriminatory and/or illegal remains to be seen. Perhaps a class action suit would clear that up.