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...Though academia was a more distant fourth-ranked field for men (12.6 percent), it ranked first for women (16.1 percent). While academic careers were the most popular among Radcliffe respondents, proportionally fewer Radcliffe than Harvard graduates were fully tenured professor. (A substantial portion are either adjunct or assistant professors...
Goodnight Desdemona is that fear some creature, the play within a play Constance Ledbelly (Lindsey Richardson), a frumpish assistant professor from Queens, is struggling with the slings and arrows of outrageous academia. She endures an arrogant and exploitative senior professor, his disdainful girlfriend, and the ridicule of her peers, who dismiss her theory that Romeo and Juliet and Othello were adapted by Shakespeare from lost originals in which they were comedies...
...Ph.D. is the highest academic degree which a scholar can obtain in any given field of study. And like all types of degrees, it is being awarded with greater frequency and being required of greater numbers of applicants to positions in industry, education and academia. The recent hiring of two new Assistant Deans of Freshmen, both with Ph.D.s, points to the pervasive standard for hiring practices which is fast becoming the norm...
...excuses for the parochialism of the philosophy department is that just about all philosophy done in academia today is analytic. But Harvard, one of the world's leading institutions, should live up to its name and lead, not conform...
...probe 17 year-old psyches and, in one hour or less, form opinions on their characters? Are any of these interviewers qualified to do this, or are they acting like armchair psychologists at the students' expense? And why are colleges doing this anyway? Presumably they are choosing candidates foe academia and not the priesthood...