I don't know if this is sub-only or not, but if it is, he says it's cross-posted on howtheuniversityworks.com, but when I just went there to check, it wasn't up yet.
Yeah, that article says what I was thinking about the NY Times piece. There was a whole lot of crazy in there.
Even though there are issues with graduate education in America, this dude should remember that we still have the best universities in the world by far. I think we can fix specific problems without DEMOLISHING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM AS IT STANDS BWAARRR
That's exactly what I thought when I read this last night! Why do we have to fix the things that aren't broken? I wouldn't be interested in studying any of the new interdisciplinary programs he suggests...not even "Water."
A professor and I were talking about this article for a solid hour this afternoon. We thought it was funny how the writer, who's in his 60's now and tenured at Columbia, is conveniently critical of the system when he's probably on his way out. "Scrap tenure and reform the whole damned system, but, uh, wait until I'm gone, ok?"
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I don't know if this is sub-only or not, but if it is, he says it's cross-posted on howtheuniversityworks.com, but when I just went there to check, it wasn't up yet.
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Even though there are issues with graduate education in America, this dude should remember that we still have the best universities in the world by far. I think we can fix specific problems without DEMOLISHING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM AS IT STANDS BWAARRR
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