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2017-02-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Trump should pity the poor PhD: Glenn Reynolds

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-17 03:44|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 If someone has a double doctorate in medieval history and complains they cannot get an adequate job, I do not feel sorry for them.

Posted by BernardZ 2017-02-17 04:29|| 2017-02-17 04:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Are they any good in their field, BZ?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-17 07:04|| 2017-02-17 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I know someone who has a Masters in puppetry!. Can't understand why he can't get a 6 figure income job. "I have a Masters!"

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-02-17 07:27|| 2017-02-17 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

See: Student Loan program

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-17 08:10|| 2017-02-17 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 If someone has a double doctorate in medieval history and complains they cannot get an adequate job, I do not feel sorry for them.

I think you missed the point. You have part-time adjuncts doing most of the teaching while tenured professors are over paid and do virtually nothing.

Add to that the lopsided administration/faculty situation and the administrators making obscene money to boot. MAKE the Left eat their own dog food. Alinsky the crap out of these hypocrites.

Posted by Daffy Throlulet9033 2017-02-17 08:29|| 2017-02-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I've seen similar arguments made about charitable giving. The Lefties say it must be done by government, because otherwise no one would do it voluntarily. The numbers belie this claim. What's happening is that liberals are confessing something about themselves.

Which makes me wonder when the Left says that without gun control, we'd all be shooting each other all the time.

Posted by Iblis 2017-02-17 10:42|| 2017-02-17 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Which makes me wonder when the Left says that without gun control, we'd all be shooting each other all the time.

The Left lacks among other things, self awareness and self control. I'm sure you have noticed the astonishing level of projection the Left engages in.

Posted by Spinesing Gray3122 2017-02-17 11:40|| 2017-02-17 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Supposedly, the tenured professors are doing important research. Now, how important that research really is I'm not prepared to say.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-17 11:46|| 2017-02-17 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 I had an administrative position at UCI back in the day. I knew for a fact that many of the tenured professors were not even on campus for months on end. UCI had a Nobel Laureate who didn't even do his research on campus.

They use these big name professors to pimp a class to students and then some GA teaches it and the professor doesn't even do office hours.

I knew of some chemistry classes taught in the Medical Sciences Department that were taught by UNDERGRADUATES...yep, the GAs were too busy doing research so they had juniors and seniors teaching freshman chemistry.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-02-17 12:14|| 2017-02-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's my research. Jobs have been going overseas while people have been pouring in feeding off of a US Public deficit that had double on only 8 years. Do the math.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-02-17 12:36|| 2017-02-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 UCI had a Nobel Laureate who didn't even do his research on campus.

As long as he does it - and puts UCI on papers as affiliation

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-17 15:49|| 2017-02-17 15:49|| Front Page Top

#12 ...sort of like Saudis buying the right to put an Arab name on a researcher's paper as a coauthor, to show the accomplishments of Islam.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-17 16:06|| 2017-02-17 16:06|| Front Page Top

#13 sort of like any paper I ever seen by a Saudi has an Egyptian coauthor.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-17 17:01|| 2017-02-17 17:01|| Front Page Top

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