Category: Academia
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The Worst Conversations You’ve Had As A Professor
Prodigal Academic, a science professor and blogger, lists the “worst conversations I’ve had as a professor.” They include: telling a student who was stalking…
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The Halo Effect in Academia (guest post by Felicia Nimue Ackerman)
The following is a guest post* by Felicia Nimue Ackerman, professor of philosophy at Brown University. It’s in two parts: a poem (first published as a…
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“Can I Look Myself in the Eye and Decide to Become an Academic?”
A reader writes in with the following concerns: The results of this election have substantiated some feelings I’ve been having for a while. For…
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Petition on Higher Education and Brexit
A petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, to “safeguard UK higher education” has over 1,200 signatories. Created by philosopher Helen…
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The “Grad School Takeover”
Even in four-year colleges that emphasize undergraduate education, new appointments are going to top graduates from a mere handful of prestigious doctoral programs that…
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Keeping Philosophical between Undergrad and Grad
A reader writes in: I am planning on applying to graduate school in philosophy for 2017. However, I graduated from my undergraduate institution a…
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What Was The Real Target of the Latest Academic Hoax?
Recently a pair of philosophers, Philippe Huneman (CNRS / Paris I Sorbonne) and Anouk Barberousse (CNRS / University of Lille), writing under a pseudonym, submitted a nonsense article to…
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Your Discipline Versus Your University?
An increasing number of academics simply adopt what Albert Hirschmann would call an “exit” strategy—they care more for their discipline or, more to the…