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...alumni are very generous according to their abilities," Ellison says. "But Ph.D. students don't necessarily end up being as wealthy as other students. No one goes into academia to get rich...
...look forward with delight to returning to being a professor, to joining my colleagues again in the trenches of academia," Ellison adds...
...graduate students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made her a risky candidate. In the increasingly shrinking job market at universities, such a letter is likely to ruin any chance for her success in academia. Instead of a place of free intellectual exchange, Yale University was a place of tight political control...
Schor, who led an open panel discussion with students on gender in academia last Friday, described herself as "known as someone who cares about [those issues...
...that he can't keep his mouth shut. He sees corruption and hypocrisy in big-time college sports, and he writes books that land like cluster bombs, sparing no one. He sees universities spending gazillions on new stadiums and practice facilities while stiffing undergraduate education, and he papers academia's ivory towers with the evidence. It's been a virtuous crusade, but Sperber made one blasphemous mistake along the way. In May he called for I.U. to fire radioactive, chair-tossing basketball coach Bobby Knight...