Archives for “universities”

Should there be fewer or more Ph.D.’s?

Louis Menand, writing about the "overproduction" of Ph.D.'s in the humanities (via 11D): The moral of the story that the numbers tell once seemed straightforward: if ...

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:31 pm.

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adjuncting: bad; INCREDIBLE proliferation of adjuncts in colleges: worse

So there's an actual report that found what anyone who's ever adjunct-taught a college course probably already knew: that adjuncting is overall BAD (via Bitch.Ph.D.). ...

3 Comments. Posted by LK on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 1:39 pm.

Filed under healthcare, universities.

is tenure the problem with academia?

A couple of weeks ago a number of bloggers were talking pro and contra the tenure system (too many to list everyone - for which ...

0 Comments. Posted by LK on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 5:26 pm.

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voting as a U.S. citizen and other life-changing decisions

I want to record something here that so far, I've kept rather private. Not my vote, which I've cast, and which is now a part ...

0 Comments. Posted by LK on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 5:46 pm.

Filed under politics, real life, universities.