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Category Archives: College
The rise of the “substackademic”
Chris Bickerton writes: A successful academic entrepreneur must make themselves their primary focus. In an odd way, the academic entrepreneur is the realisation of Foucault’s call for a “cultivation of the self”. The constant curation of one’s status as a … Continue reading
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Max Weber and the Two Universities
Professor Stephen P. Turner published in January 2024: No sooner than the ink had begun to dry (or should we say the pixels stopped changing) on the publications written to celebrate the centennial of Weber’s ‘Science as a Profession and … Continue reading
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American Universities Began Asking For A Personal Statement Essay To Weed Out Jews
College admissions in America operate with the tools of the last century that were enacted to limit the admission of Jews. In most countries, admission to university is done on the basis of test scores, but American universities in the … Continue reading
Beyond The Academic Ethic
Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading
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Academic Horror Stories
From the New York Review of Books: * Among the best known involves an adjunct at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh who taught French for twenty-five years, her salary never rising above $20,000, before dying nearly homeless in 2013 at the … Continue reading
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