sci.research.careers

If you want to read further, there is a book out there "The PhD Factory"
by Goldman and Massy (or maybe its Massy and Goldman), which says about
the same thing.

Universities have sold out 10-15 years ago to money, expansion in
quantitiy without quality, and teaching no longer means anything.

Its really sad.

More at:


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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, ptermx wrote:

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> Should university science departments strive to become generators of
> intellectual property that can be sold for profit or should they stick
> to educating the young in scientific theory and methods?
> A review by Michael Crow of Dan Greenberg's latest book Science for
> Sale: The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism, seems
> rather dismissive of Greenberg's conclusions.
> I haven't read the book myself, but it appears that Greenberg sees the
> current trend for universities to seek corporate funding and sell
> intellectual property assests as representing "ethical erosion" of the
> type he describes in his earlier Science, Money and Politics: Political
> Triumph and Ethical Erosion.
> Crow makes the fair point that universities have always been compromised
> in the steps they take to remain solvent and takes Greenberg to task for
> advancing an idealized view of the university.
> Certainly, the blurb on Science for Sale does not suggest an especially
> compelling book, concluding only that "the temptations of money will
> always be a threat, and they can only be countered through the vigilance
> of scientists, the press, and the public".
> What remains unsaid is whether Crow or Greenberg sees any tension
> between the universities' role as educators and their ambition to be
> purveyors of patented inventions.
> Greenberg states that:
>
> "In the biomedical sciences, . production far exceeds job
> openings"
>
> and
>
> "increasing numbers of American students are shunning scientific
> training and the questionable opportunity to serve as scientific stoop
> labor for grant-laden professors"
>
> There seems to be little follow-up on the betrayal of students' hopes
> that this represents.
>
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