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Firing John Yoo – the vocational distinction
Archive for the ‘Academic Labor Market’ Category
March 5th, 2008
Category: Academic Labor Market, Education policy, Evolutionary psychology, Feminism, Policy Analysis, Science and its methods, Women in academia
Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t [...]
May 10th, 2007
Category: Academic Labor Market
The horrible thing about tenure isn’t accumulating deadwood; someone has to sit on university committees. The horrible thing about tenure is the tenure process, which denies academic freedom to those most capable of using it.
May 10th, 2007
Category: Academic Labor Market
Brian Tamanaha at St. John’s Law School has kicked off yet another round of the never-ending debate on the desirability of tenure in academic institutions, instigated by the proposal of a number of law school deans to loosen accrediting authorities’ rules. Tamanaha’s argument rests on the unassailable claim that tenure redistributes enormous resources to the [...]
March 8th, 2006
Category: Academic Labor Market
I’m working through some ideas about the operation of academic labor markets, that I hope to test if I ever get around to it. Below is a VERY rough sketch of the argument. I’d be happy to see what our readers think of this. Some of this may be half-baked, so read it in that [...]