A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!
What people were talking about this week
The New York Times asks whether law school is a losing game – and it sounds a lot like the rest of the graduate school universe: high debt, no jobs, screwy numbers.
Discipline matters. The number of history jobs has continued to drop, while the number of econ jobs has recovered. English and foreign languages don’t get any worse – but they were pretty bad to begin with.
DePaul University is in an uproar over a pattern of denying tenure to minority scholars.
Recent interdisciplinary successes in solving problems in medicine and biotech are creating a new “convergence” science – which may yet shake up how disciplines work.
An anonymous manifesto on leaving academia.
Claire Potter offers suggestions on interviewing.
Is the US overeducated? Richard Vedder says yes.
While interdisciplinary work may be useful, there are important institutional and disciplinary barriers to it.
Dean Dad explains how to read salary ranges in academia.
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