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*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Would love to see what a successful answer (in the view of the All Souls’ examiners) looks like.
That list of questions has a beauty to it, I swear.
Besides MIT, Brown, Penn, and the University of Southern California have all declined. Again, if any school accepts the compact, then academics must boycott that university, and treat it as a pariah.
CHE has a useful piece by some leading academic freedom experts (David Rabban, Robert Post, Keith Whittington) and other academic defenders of free expression and academic freedom that explains the problems with the “compact.”
All about class.