A Comment About
Anti-American, Foreign Donors Are Paying Off Our Profs. Shouldn’t We Address This?
March 25, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Raymond in DC
2011-03-25 15:05:39
“So teachers read, teach, and write about topics for which funding is available, and students make such topics the object of their study.”
Some 30+ years ago, I sat before a committee at a major university to review whether I was suitable for their Ph.D. program in Political Science. In the middle of that review I interjected exactly this notion – I called it the “sociology of research”. They looked at me like I was delusional, but the phenomenon seemed obvious. (Yes, maybe I could have called it something else.) They accepted me into the program, but without enthusiasm. I left it a year later, never to return.
