This post is a piece by Nathan Greenfield, reporting on a major study about the influence of institutional prestige on faculty hiring in the US. His article was first published in University World News. Here's a link to the original. He focuses on a new research analysis recently published in Nature. The study, conducted by a … Continue reading Nathan Greenfield and Val Bur– The Influence of Institutional Prestige in Faculty Hiring
This post is an article by Nathan Greenfield about how institutional prestige shapes faculty hiring. It was published recently in University World News. Here's a link to the original. He's reporting on a remarkable study by Daniel Larremore and Hunter Wapman, which involved "300,000 faculty members in 10,612 departments in 368 PhD-granting American universities." What … Continue reading Nathan Greenfield — How Institutional Prestige Shapes Faculty Hiring
This post is a collection of some of my favorite cartoons about academic life, most of which come from the Jorge Chan website PHDComics.com. Enjoy.
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about life as a professor. Most of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy! ARTOONS ABOUT THE LIFE OF … Continue reading Cartoons about Faculty Life
This post is an analysis of the engine for scholarly production in American higher education. The issue is that the university is a unique work setting in which the usual organizational incentives don’t apply. Administrators can’t offer much in the way of power and money as rewards for productive faculty and they also can’t do … Continue reading The Lust for Academic Fame
This post is an essay of mine that was just published in a book -- Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less Be More? -- edited by Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe. An earlier version appeared in Aeon in 2018. Here's a PDF of the chapter. Here's the setup for the argument: The … Continue reading The Lust for Academic Fame
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 