{"id":4270,"date":"2009-11-24T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/tenure-threat-menace-or-market\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:10:44","slug":"tenure-threat-menace-or-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/tenure-threat-menace-or-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenure: Threat, Menace, or Market Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a little too busy to participate, but His Holiness<\/a> and Eric Weinstein on Twitter<\/a> have gotten into an interesting exchange about the structure of academia, and the appropriate number of Ph.D.’s in science. As usual, I suspect I’m not fully understanding the majesty of whatever Eric is arguing in favor of, but it’s provocative.<\/p>\n

At about the same time, the Dean Dad has been on something of an anti-tenure bender, starting here<\/a>, continuing here<\/a>, and culminating in a blistering rant about Michael Berube<\/a>. Dean Dad is in favor of replacing tenure with infinitely renewable five-year contracts, and makes a case that such a scheme would actually be better at protecting “academic freedom.” Personally, I’m less enthusiastic about the idea of bringing contract lawyers into the game, but whatever floats your boat.<\/p>\n

I’m sufficiently distracted that I don’t have any really Deep Thoughts to add to either of these conversations, but it occurs to me that they ought to be made aware of each other. So: Dean Dad, @EricRWeinstein. @EricRWeinstein, Dean Dad. Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a little too busy to participate, but His Holiness and Eric Weinstein on Twitter have gotten into an interesting exchange about the structure of academia, and the appropriate number of Ph.D.’s in science. As usual, I suspect I’m not fully understanding the majesty of whatever Eric is arguing in favor of, but it’s… Continue reading Tenure: Threat, Menace, or Market Failure?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,13,28,11,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-economics","category-education","category-politics","category-science","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}