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Steve Street, a lecturer at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, urges academics and administrators to stop being kind and start being fair to adjuncts in a recent commentary piece in The Chronicle.
Tenure was designed to protect academic freedom, so why is it being used as a golden parachute for incompetent administrators?, Lila Harper asks over at FACE Talk.
Via Chance and Necessity, and Sandwalk comes word of an article in Science that asks where the members of Yale University’s molecular biophysics and biochemistry program’s entering doctoral class of 1991 are now. The answer: Of the 30 that started, 26 got their Ph.D.‘s, but only one is now tenured. The article is for subscribers only, but you can hear the podcast here.
Finally, don’t miss Mary Ann Mason’s recent column on Chronicle Careers. In it, Mason, a professor and co-director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic and Family Security, looks at why so few of the women who earn Ph.D.‘s in science go on to become tenured scientists. It’s imperative, she writes, for those investigating gender equity in the sciences to look at “both the career and family outcomes of female Ph.D.‘s,” and “not just the number of women who have succeeded in academic research.”