Aaron,
While it is obvious that you believe you have had a horrible and unfair
academic experience at the hands of your academic "bosses" and the
institutions that support them, perhaps it is somewhat past time to point
out a couple of salient facts. The most important of these is that you
spent
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Wow. To extrapolate from your bad experiences to say that NO (state)
universities or K-12 schools should receive greater funding than they do now
doesn't seem justified. You haven't proven the magnitude of the supposed
problems you see, or outlined a workable alternative educational and research
Well said on all counts (note I am a couple of posts behind already! -
this is in response to Tom's original post).
The advisor-advisee relationship is like most others, it is about "fit."
One size does not fit all, which is why it is difficult for Universities
to "screen" advisors a priori, as ha
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My experience isn't the same as yours. Departments are often quite happy to get
rid of someone with delusions of grandeur. At my own institution, the reality
is that state funding isn't going anywhere but south, and so each department
will soon have to pay a financial price or opportunity cost f
Aaron, you seem to have a whole lot on your mind re this topic!
Clearly, for a spousal hire to take place, one of the spice had to have many of
the properties to which I alluded, and it's really unlikely that the other
would be hired unless he/she also had such abilities and achievements as well
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