Kaustuv Basu discusses an effort at Stanford to reduce the time it takes students to receive a Ph.D. in German Studies to 4 years. Spearheaded by former MLA President Russell Berman, a member of the department, the initiative seeks to shorten the time it takes...
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Our highly valued commenter John Protevi leads us to the latest plan to eviscerate the humanities: get undergraduates to grade papers for free! Koller, an artificial intelligence specialist who has.
The Kaplan Test Prep Daily has determined that American faculty are overpaid: But college costs have risen faster than inflation for three decades and, at roughly 25 percent of the.
Last year, faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago formed a union that combined both tenure-track and adjunct faculty in the same bargaining unit. Seeing a threat to its exploitation of cheap academic labor, the university administration sued. Although the union had won small victories at...
So I was in a bit of a Twitter argument last night with Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association (@rgfeal) over the issue of humanities Ph.D. students.
Interesting results from the TRIP survey on IR scholars: It turns out that in the case of using military force against Iran, thirty percent of self-identified realists advocate the use.
I observe with some degree of pride that Captain Andrew Betson, a student of mine at the Patterson School, has an article in the latest Armed Forces Journal. The article began life as a seminar paper in last spring's Counter-Insurgency course. It's excellent work; check...
Larry Cebula offers an argument we hear frequently: that no one should go on for a Ph.D. because there aren't jobs. Cebula covers the basic points: delayed income earnings that.
So, the College of Arts and Sciences at my beloved institution has decided that students require visual aids in order to find their departmental website. On the one hand, it's.
Andrew Exum and Charlie Simpson wrote a post a few days ago on how wannabe policy professionals should approach Ph.D. education. The post was written in response to a series of tweets that defined the parameters of the problem, but the absence of context led...
I mean literally read them when giving a "talk." This practice gives unfortunate credence to Alfred North Whitehead's remark that the university has been obsolete since the invention of the.
I'm sitting in an airport bar waiting to board my PDX-ORD flight, with an outside shot at an upgrade. I'm off to Chicago to present a paper, co-authored with my.