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Posts tagged as “Higher Ed in general”

Purdue cuts # of PhD students, increases stipends. CNJ reallocates faculty time

Two interesting stories from Colleen Flaherty in InsideHigherEd. Please pass along other similar stories in the comments: Purdue: Pay for graduate teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University is among the lowest in the Big Ten — a little less than $14,000 a year, before taxes.…

Hamermesh and Riley on Tenure

7/12/2011: From the Texas Tribune. Motivated by the debate about measuring faculty productivity. Hamermesh is a labor economist at UT, Riley is the author of “The Faulty Lounges“. The clip is mostly about tenure. “The Hammer”, as he occasionally tries to get his colleagues to nickname him, has no hesitancy…

Higher Ed bubble?

5/19/2011: Or the usual recession result? Don’t expect the NY Times to actually do any analysis. A quotefest from Catherine Rampell in the NY Times: The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work…