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it's all been done

This is my lament. I am post­ing it in the hopes that some of my fel­low grad stu­dents can com­mis­er­ate. Do you ever get the feel­ing that, for every new topic in which you develop inter­ests, you later find that it’s all been done by some­one else? It’s hap­pened to me at least twice in the …

November 10, 2009 – 7:55 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in grad school | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

business-izing higher ed: I’m not scared

A few days back, this post about higher ed in the UK appeared over on one of my favorite blogs, Fem­i­nist Philoso­phers. Here’s the big quote: “Busi­ness sec­re­tary wants stu­dents and par­ents to be treated more like cus­tomers in pro­pos­als to over­haul higher edu­ca­tion.” The orig­i­nal poster wor­ries that “uni­ver­si­ties get put under a great …

November 6, 2009 – 10:27 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in economics-ish, education, politics & political, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)