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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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>
I am a professor, of sorts...