Category Archives: Academe
Reconsidering the Barometer of “Placement”
A great post about what is occluded in the term “placement” over at the Edge of the American West seems really timely, given the bad job market this past year. Mostly I just agree with it even though it’s more about history than Comm Studies. I would add that the placement statistic also reifies the …
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Apparently, blogging is at its best when it’s re-reactive
One more, last Mark Taylor response. Now I’ll cut it out.
Taylor gets more criticism
Here and here.
New University: Makes Its Own Sauce
If you were to start over, how would you build a university from scratch? Would you keep disciplines, tenure, professors, students, and degrees? What would you keep from the current system? Taking a break from the End of the Newspaper, yesterday’s New York Times ran an End of the University op-ed from Mark Taylor, a …
Alep — Another Local Discovery
Across from the Jean-Talon Market (you could throw things at Hamel) stand the Syrian restaurants Alep (more formal) and Petit-Alep (less formal, same kitchen). We’ve lived in Montreal for almost 5 years now and in our current place for almost two, and just made it there for the first time Thursday night to celebrate Carrie …
Some parts of the economic crisis might still have to do with overproduction
The academic gloom-and-doom stories are moving north. Fresh off a New York Times story about new PhDs having trouble finding jobs in a year when so many searches are being cancelled, the Globe and Mail reports (a few years too late) that maybe minting all those extra PhDs wasn’t such a great idea after all. …
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