Monday, 14 July 2008

Roundup: kills Google Reader items dead

Time to clear out the Google Reader “to be blogged about” queue, while I wait around for the Safelite guy:

  • The old debate over academic titles resurfaces with questions over whether Barack Obama’s teaching at the University of Chicago Law School merited his claim of being a professor; Orin Kerr says yes and I am inclined to agree, particularly given that at most institutions instructors with a terminal degree in the field (which in most fields of law, horror of horrors, includes the professional JD degree) would receive the title “adjunct professor” even when teaching a single course.
  • Amber Taylor describes why she doesn’t sound like a Houstonian. My accent, on the other hand, is not really the result of any deliberate plan; it just seems to have worked out that way.
  • Political scientists only pay attention to the importance of SES in their research, not in graduate admissions.

That wasn’t all of the queue, but it took care of most of the highlights.

3 comments:

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Thanks for the link about SES in grad schools. It’s something I’ve always known, but never quantified. I remember at North Texas, I was the only black grad student (no black faculty), there were no Hispanic grad students or faculty (in Texas!!!) and only 1:4 grad students/faculty were female. My point is that when people are so blind to racial and ethnic diversity, getting them to recognize class diversity (or lack thereof) is incredibly difficult. Needed, but difficult.

 
[Permalink] 2. Aady Pitt wrote @ Thu, 17 Jul 2008, 8:23 am CDT:

Thank you for the link some SES in grad schools. It is something I have always known, but never measured.
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My point is that when people are so blind to racial and ethnic diversity, getting them to recognize class diversity (or lack thereof) is incredibly difficult.

 
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