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You're talking about the ones who've made it to tenure, either by genuine academic merit or old-boys-networks (or both). But given the lack of permanent positio
by tetris11 3y ago
You're talking about the ones who've made it to tenure, either by genuine academic merit or old-boys-networks (or both). But given the lack of permanent positions in Academia, one could make the case that a large portion of Academia genuinely do excel on merit alone (albeit in the short time window where they have to face the reality that they will never make tenure, and will have to find an industry job). Complacency and politics occurs at the professor-level, but that's rarely where the science is done.
- coldtea 3y agoNo, not referring to tenured spefically. Holds even at PhD student level. Just because you studied at PhD level and can "produce stuff" and invent, doesn't make you a better person. If you're a shitty person, you're now a shitty person in academia or research, whereas before you'd just be a shitty truck driver or secretary.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThere are a lot of adjuncts and post-docs, especially outside of the hard STEM fields, that are not ideal role models to say the least.