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"A dozen out of 17k and students and academic staff. Great story." How is this relevant at all? The fact that some students are in a situation where they are
by ryguytilidie 13y ago
"A dozen out of 17k and students and academic staff. Great story."
How is this relevant at all? The fact that some students are in a situation where they are pressured to drop out for the economic gain of their professors is clearly a problem. Just because it is happening to a small number of students doesn't make it okay...?
- mwfunk 13y agoIt doesn't make it OK, but it absolutely makes it an isolated incident rather than something you can use to draw conclusions about how the entire university is changing, which is what the article was about.
- hemancuso 13y ago"Pressured to drop out for the economic gain of the professors?" Give me a break. Taking a break from Stanford undergrad for a few years with a few awesome peers to run a startup happens a few times a year, if not more lately. Some non-trivial portion of the CS majors join to start a company. Timing often dictates market opportunity. This seems like an amazing one - faculty want to join, you're backed by the president Stanford university. An absolutely fantastic opportunity that the students owe to their luck of having gotten into Stanford.
- tedunangst 13y agoHow do you know the students didn't choose to go to Stanford with the dream of founding a startup and dropping out? Hint: "I'm biding my time here until I meet the right co-founder" has been the attitude of at least a few students, going back years.