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This was overdue, but definitely a good announcement. For people who think this is absurdly slow, I would point out that undergraduate enrollment in the depart
by dsg42 12y ago
This was overdue, but definitely a good announcement.
For people who think this is absurdly slow, I would point out that undergraduate enrollment in the department has grown 5-10x in the last four years. In 2011, I was in a four person class with a professor and a TA, and some core classes had <20 students. Now those same classes have well over 100 students. Top tier universities just can't react and find talented faculty that quickly.
- jseliger 12y agoTop tier universities just can't react and find talented faculty that quickly. In a sense I think this is right—they can't, right now—but in another sense I think slow reaction times are a choice: they can react much faster but choose, for cultural and bureaucratic reasons, not to. I'd also like to see universities move away from tenure-based hiring and towards long-term-contract-based hiring that effectively rewards strong instructors. Doing so may among other things alleviate some of the current slowness in university action.
- munin 12y ago> universities move away from tenure-based hiring and towards long-term-contract-based hiring they already do, see the army of adjuncts
- Chronic31 12y agoStanford and MIT don't have that problem. Or at least they're in better shape than Yale (with the same problem)