The Chronicle of Higher Ed linked to our post about the salaries of college presidents in relation to the salary of adjuncts. I'm reading Louis Menand on the PhD problem. And Michael Berube discusses the truly dreadful job market.
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Apt. 11d 
That Menand piece was very interesting, but I don’t know enough about academe to comment. I wonder what our hostess thinks of what Menand says?
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I read the Menand piece, too. He really kind of danced around the human waste and exploitation involved, I thought: graduate school looks kind of like a Ponzi scheme in its effects for a lot of students, who invest ten years and get nowhere. For women, for whom that ten years is when they could have babies and, after, it is far less likely, it is particularly bitter.
We have fewer paid jobs for a lot of the roles people would like to play than we have people who would like them – academic, artist, musician, superintendant of schools. So one strategy is the Jersey solution (have thousands of jurisdictions, and make homeowners in them pay for all those superintendants, and high school band leaders, and township arts committees) or lots of people doing dispatching for trucking companies who think life ought have offered better, and for whom grad school was not a good deal.
In the middle ages, every ten miles there was another court, and it needed a bard and a jester and an artist. It’s never been so good for the creatives, since…
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