[Air-L] Fwd: danah's response - Graduate programs for Internet studies

[Mathieu ONeil]

Hi

This is what leapt out to me from what Jeremy writes:

 > There are places out there that 
> want to start Ph.D.
> programs so that their senior professors don't have to teach the
> introduction courses, and similar things. 

It seems to me that this very cogent observation need to be correlated to the  number of people obtaining doctorates. Everyone sort of assumes this is rising dramatically, hence the ever-increasing competition for jobs, publications etc, but is this in fact the case? I'm really asking. There was a provocative piece in the NYT by a senior academic last year (head of religious studies somewhere?) saying that yes, and that the system needs a drastic overhaul..

M

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