The Chronicle of Higher Education – Lennard J. Davis
“Shouldn’t we just nurture all good ideas and let the chaff fall where it may? Perhaps, but I don’t see students’ lives as chaff. At the end of the academic day, having a job is really what should be the outcome of spending years in a Ph.D. program. You might have written the best and most provocative dissertation in the world, but if it didn’t appeal to any job committees or employers, you could end up stocking the shelves at Barnes & Noble . . . “(more)