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
Does the increase in quantity of academic research compromise the quality?
Richard Vedder argues that faculty should shoulder work loads like those in other professional fields: medicine, law, accounting. What I want to know, though, is how “not in the office” equals “not working,” since teaching takes place elsewhere and most faculty do research and writing elsewhere.
Paypal founder offers students $100,000 for two years to develop business ideas instead of going to college.
Advice for new tenure-track faculty.
It used to be that newly minted PhDs were advised to publish chapters of their dissertation as articles before publishing the whole book. Advances in technology and politics may be changing that dynamic.
There’s a new resource for navigating graduate school: Gradhacker.org.
Nicole and Maggie talk about the crappiness of the “when to have a baby” choices for female academics.
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