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Date: | Wed, 2 Nov 2005 07:25:24 -0500 |
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President Petersen last week at the Trustees Meeting defended his incentive
plan to attract and reward the best young scholars in the UT system. A
recent survey of scholars teaching international relations in Foreign
Policy suggests that an unintended consequence of this will be a trend
towards teaching more theory and less real world application. I wonder if
this will be true in most disciplines at UTC? I quote:
"The international relations field today is surprisingly young: Half of the
professors who teach at U.S. colleges received their Ph.D.s in the past 12
years. Even more surprising is how young scholars change the focus of their
teaching over time. Early on, when young faculty are fresh out of graduate
school, they focus their teaching on theoretical questions and scholarly
debates. But, as their careers progress, professors are inclined to teach
their students more about real-world policy debates and less about
scholarly arguments. The image of the ancient, tenured professor reading
from decades-old notes needs to be revised."
Richard
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