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It does seem strangely personal, though I'll admit it is confusing to publish as a n engineering Dean. My theory is this author, Andrew Gelman, is an MIT and H
by laidoffamazon 3y ago
It does seem strangely personal, though I'll admit it is confusing to publish as a n engineering Dean.
My theory is this author, Andrew Gelman, is an MIT and Harvard trained academic that is incensed by the fact that a state-school educated, industry-focused individual would be a lead administrator at a University. I don't think he has a particularly high opinion of people that weren't precocious youth.
- spencerflem 3y agoThe paper is extremely embarrassingly bad. It would be lame as a middle school science fair project.
- wwirklich 3y agoThe students I worked with at UNR were not from privileged backgrounds and picked the school because it is affordable. I loved working with these students. They were smart and hardworking, and you could see the positive impact of higher education on their lives. It is a betrayal of these students to hire someone like this that will harm the reputation of their degrees.
- laidoffamazon 3y agoI'm very skeptical that the reputation of a state school is really influenced by a single Dean of engineering no matter how silly their recent publication record is. I'm also noticing a red flag in this comment by stating that they picked the school because it was affordable - while that is true, shouldn't the same grace be applied to students that went to this school because it was the best school they got into and didn't get into any better ones? I've noticed a lot of people justify their attendance at lower-ranked schools by saying the institutions are affordable, but in reality you shouldn't need to justify not getting into elite schools to begin with.