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Linky Friday: Learnin’ & Earnin’

To earn, you gotta learn. Also, maybe, relocate and/or get an education.

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State of the Discussion

3 hours ago

to Jaybird

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+ What is the purpose of a university? That question has a few answers. The first two are obvious: to confer degrees and to serve [. . .]

What is the purpose of a university?

That question has a few answers. The first two are obvious: to confer degrees and to serve as a home for researchers. Some others are less obvious. For instance, quite a few universities are essentially operating as hegde funds. A bunch of other answers are somewhere in between on the obvious scale: semi-professional athletic leagues, matchmaking, etc.

The one answer that should be obvious, but hides in plane site is that the university exists to hire people who would otherwise be on food stamps. That's not a joke: https://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152751116/why-so-many-ph-d-s-are-on-food-stamps. We could ask why NPR thinks that having an advanced degree makes a person somehow above collecting food stamps, but that would just raise a bunch of questions about what the value of an advanced degree is.

Does Jarrar fit into this category? I don't know. A little bit of Googling reveals that she has published a couple of novels and some short stories in anthologies. That's probably not enough to make a living purely on writing. Her other major skill seems to be pissing off people on the internet, which can be quite remunerative if you can do it on big enough of a scale. Maybe that's her ultimate ambition, but she's not quite there yet. She may have other job market skills or just possess enough grit to make it outside of academia. I don't know.

I'm not sure that I agree about endangering endowments. My guess is that the sort of people who would give an endowment to an English Lit or Creative Writing program know exactly what they're getting. Generally speaking, people don't donate large sums of money without doing their due diligence. The real danger that Jarrar poses is that she's just showing off and nobody likes that.

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Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech

4 hours ago

Jaybird

+ What is the purpose of a university? Given that it appears to be the maintenance of an endowment, this professor is actively harming the purpose of [. . .]

What is the purpose of a university?

Given that it appears to be the maintenance of an endowment, this professor is actively harming the purpose of this particular university.

It wouldn't surprise me if the university decided to fire her. If you want to keep your job, you help your company achieve its mission. She ain't doing that. Worse, she ain't doing that in a very, very, very public way that raises a *HUGE* stink. Look for new and improved official policies to be put in place that limit the ability of professors to harm the purpose of the university.

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Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech

5 hours ago

Maribou

Been hearing a lot about this so I'm glad to have these links / contexts.

Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech

6 hours ago

to Michael Cain

Dark Matter

+ Sure, all of that is true. There are dozens of factors, hundreds of factions trying to put their fingers on the scales, lots and [. . .]

Sure, all of that is true. There are dozens of factors, hundreds of factions trying to put their fingers on the scales, lots and lots of moving parts.

Population density is hardly the only thing going on, it's an incomplete measure, however it's also a significant barometer. If I tell you a county has a high population density, you can guess it voted for HRC just from that and your odds of being right are pretty good.

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