Annette's story highlights the difficult problem confronting students (and
new Ph.D.s applying for jobs): All the credentials and expertise in the
world won't help if interests and expertise don't fit the program or if the
program has no openings.
Sometimes life is not fair. Sometimes strategies
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Subject: Re:[tips] Why Do People Need A College B.A.?
Mike Wiliams wrote (among other observations):
"We routinely reject applicants for grad school who have the publication
credentials of people we recently hired as assistant professors."
>From my personal experienc
Bob Wildblood sez:
I think we are facing a qualifications inflation as well as a possible grade
inflation problem.
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Of course the two are probably related. Perhaps in the past as well as now the
requirements for a position have always been having the credentials that
indicate you are
Mike Wiliams wrote (among other observations):
"We routinely reject applicants for grad school who have the publication
credentials of people we recently hired as assistant professors."
>From my personal experience, I know that from the first institution at
which I worked, I achieved the rank o
There is a line in the original The Godfather book that has always stuck
with me: Anyone can learn anyone else's job in about six weeks.
(My quote may not be 100% accurate.) I ponder that from time to time.
Although it might take a lot of education to be any physician (or
accountant or psychol
Interesting!
I taught a lot of first generation college students over 40 years;
many of them didn't get a lot of support from their families (who were lucky to
support themselves, financially and otherwise), but I don't recall hearing
about a lot of actual resistance. In some cases, they were i
I really appreciate this being said by Jim.
We have a large number of first generation college students at our university.
My awareness of their unique situations has increased in the 4 years I've been
here. I'd honestly never before thought much of it due to ignorance and my
personal upbringin
Briefly (because I'm watching Isaacson tell us what a crazy mofo
and son of a bitch Steve Jobs was), I think that the subtext is not
that colleges can or should produce millionaires/billionaires but
rather millionaires/billionaires don't need college. The characteristics
that make for very wealthy
Hi
Although I have not read the book or the article (too far along the
road of cynicism about USA politics and public dialogue already), I
guess I never thought that we were trying to educate millionaires or
billionaires. Surely every other statistic, economic and otherwise,
would pretty much fav
