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Archive for November, 2012
The troubling trends in dean-to-professor ratios on
November 26, 2012
Adjuncts on the verge of unionizing, might strike on
November 13, 2012
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Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition
Creator of Sage Math: “Why I’m Leaving Academia”
There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about
The real reason college tuition costs so much
Nature on the future of postdocs
An Astrophysicist’s view on the transition from academia to data science
Nature: The ones who got away
The financial realities of student loan debt
The “Failed Intellectual” reflects on leaving the tower
Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media
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