Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., What do you teach at MIT? I spent some time at that other little school down from you... on 11/26/01 10:29 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > > > Guy Bennett wrote: > >>> Though much of this activity is >> without significance in the "real world," real world values are meaningless >> in the academy: it is a self-validating system that generally does not >> recognize non-academic achievement. >> > > > Actually, my experience has been precisely the opposite - While I agree > entirely that virtually no one in the 'real world' gives a rat's behind > about your academic credentials once you get past your first job, I have > found that some folks in academia will grant 'equivalence' to certain > real-world accomplishments when hiring for positions in academia. At > both Harvard Medical School, where I was briefly the Director of Media > Affairs and had an academic appointment, and at MIT, where I teach, my > credentials in the world of journalism are viewed by academics as being > the equivalent of a doctorate in their world. The bottom line, I > believe, is that at these particular institutions the academics have > enough self-confidence to understand that they know what they know, and > that I know what I know, and what I know is as much of value to students > as what they know. (Does that make sense:-) ) > > B. D. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html