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I didn’t realize there was a difference in red wine glasses and white wine glasses, though I was aware that red wine isn’t chilled, and the glass can be grasped anywhere, while the white wine glass is supposed to be grasped by the stem.
I also didn’t know what you referred to regarding 4/4 teaching load and had to look that up.
I’m generally of the opinion that at public universities, if you’re not in STEM, you should be doing a 4/4 teaching load. I say generally. A history professor probably has a good case for doing research, but an English professor?
My brother is a professor in marketing (business). While he has moved into administration (associate Dean) he has done his own academic research and submitted papers to acheive tenure. He continued his research track and will probably apply for full professor before retiring.
But business schools are essentially trade schools, and I have seen no indication that real world businesses actually use academic journals to inform their way of doing business. If anything, they do their own research and take their own risks based on that research.
I’d get rid of the whole tenure track infrastructure in public universities. I’d have state legislatures mandate it as a condition of continued funding.
This whole post is excellent but I really love this. Obviously, this is a complete waste of resources right now.
I would think this would be a really cool job because there are so many things to research and so many ways to do it.
I bet they could cut their curriculum by 30% and the kids would be just as smart.
Does anybody actually learn anything in college?
The secret of having a smart graduating class is: recruiting a smart freshman class four years earlier.
There needs to be a big public discussion about what percent of it is actual human capital development and what percent of it is something else.
This podcast: “Oh yeah? I can be intentionally vaguer than you!”
This is brutal.
In just over 5 minutes, John Stossel explains how Federal student loan subsidies encourage wealthy universities to raise their tuition rates and waste taxpayers’ money.