On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Among other things, the idea that research is important is fine and
> the idea
> that knowledge accumulation is inefficient is fine but to suggest
> that the
> intensified demands on faculty to plow out completely mainstream,
> totally
> pedestrian and intellectually uninteresting research in the
> humanities,
> social sciences and natural and physical sciences is producing
> research more
> important than the damage it is doing to faculty interaction,
> pedagogy and
> students' experience of the life of the mind is wrong.
Ok, so you're saying: "stop/reverse the corporatization of the university and the privatization of the public university"? I'm 100% with that. It makes me nervous, though, when I hear populist critiques of "research" as pointless and of profs as out-of-touch pointy-heads.
Doug