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An American Professor Weighs in on the Academic Process

Via John D Cook, Matt Welsh explains why he left Harvard for Google: There is one simple reason that I'm leaving academia: I simply love work I'm doing at Google. I get to hack all day, working on problems that are orders of magnitude larger and

Academic Ponzi Scheme

Here is another take on the pyramid scheme that is higher education today, this time from England. Why I am not a Professor Teaching was not the only criterion of assessment. Research was another and, from the point of view of getting promotion, more important. Teaching being increasingly dreadful, research

Critical Thinking

Browsing through the comments on the last post I linked to, I was struck by the first one: Based on my grad and undergrad at elite schools (and classes taken at an excellent community college and excellent regional university while I was in high school), my belief was that college

Generic Degrees

From Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask the Administrator: The Generic Degree An occasional correspondent writes: Some jobs out there are advertised as requiring a college degree, but the employers don't care what was actually studied. So these employers are in effect using college as a four-year

Physics for Future Presidents

Physics for Future Presidents is a course offered by Richard Muller at Berkeley. The course is intended primarily for liberal arts types, but Muller opened the course up to physics majors because the subject matter is not typically covered in the required courses. This course really is amazing: it covers