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Don't Rush to Grad School
Can't find a job? Don't go to grad school. The economy's tanking! Should I give up looking for a job and just go to graduate school? This seems to be the question of the moment, and everyone has an opinion. Few of the folks giving advice, though, are acknowledging a tough fact of life: as investments and state budgets dry up, so does education funding --which affects both admissions and employment. If you're a social worker, or you work for a non-profit, or in human services, then yes: I believe a master's in social work or public policy or urban planning or what have you will probably help your advancement. If you're a scientist, then there are industry jobs waiting for you--although my sense is that you might be better off working in the field for a while before picking a subfield. If you're a teacher, then a master's in education can help you move into administration and the higher salaries that go with it. I suppose MBAs might be useful degrees, though I confess, academic-by-training that I am, I haven't really the foggiest notion, except that there seem to be an awful lot of boring middle management types with MBAs. If you want a solid, dull, respectable 9-5 job, become a dentist or a self-employed lawyer. (If you want to become partner in a huge firm, you might as well get a PhD and aim for a job at Harvard: you'll go crazy either way.)
Getting wind of it
Not too long ago, I posted about how it's easier to defeat information-based change than to achieve it, particularly if...
Local Food and Fiction
The indomitable Professor Cohen writes in response to my most recent post about creative nonfiction and food: Okay, so I'm...
Barack Obama and the International Education Bowl
Rather than fret about a college football playoff, the president-elect should worry about universities' relative priorities for sports and academics, write Tom Palaima and Nathan Tublitz.
Ask the Administrator: The Book or the Grant?
A new correspondent in a humanistic discipline writes: I'm now three semesters into a permanent position at a lower-mid-range research...
Math Geek Mom: How to Li[v]e with Statistics
There is a commercial for some over the counter medicine that talks about “Dr. Mom.” Already being “Dr. Mom”, in...
Conservation or efficiency?
I was in the dentist's office, waiting to get my teeth cleaned. The remarkable thing about this situation was that...
Budget Crises, Academic Change: A Fable
Our fable begins with the recognition that everyone is in favor of change, that magic word for all of higher...
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