奖学金的P2P是解决问题之道？PHD的同学看过来！From Wired
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今天在wired这个技术类blog上面看到了关于教育的内容 感觉很新奇 就转了
文章提到了一些数据 可以供以后想走faculty的筒子参考
还提到了一个解决奖学金问题的方案 就算学校提供部分奖学金 一个reseaecher由多人资助的方案 感觉很有bt下载感觉 或者用众包来形容更恰当？虽然略有些标题党
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The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute
by Samuel Arbesman, wired.comMay 1st 2012
This article was co-authored with Jon Wilkins, the founder of the Ronin Institute
When youe start graduate school, it is easy to imagine your future. You’ll finish your PhD, maybe spend a few years as a postdoc (depending on your field), and get a faculty position at a university. After a few years, you’ll get tenure and spend the rest of your life pursuing knowledge for its own sake, your research driven by your own passion and curiosity. And along the way, you will train the next generation of graduate students. Thus, the circle of academic life continues.
The problem is, this canonical career trajectory applies to only a small fraction of graduate students. And, as any tenured professor will tell you, bureaucratic obligations and the pressure to bring in grant money make this vision of academia unrealistic even for those who succeed in acquiring one of those increasingly rare tenured academic positions.
For a long time, universities have produced more PhDs than are strictly required to fill all of the academic positions. For example, between 2005 and 2009, more than 100,000 doctoral degrees were granted by American universities. During the same period, only 16,000 new faculty positions were created. Furthermore, universities are increasingly shifting to a two-tiered faculty system, with tenure track faculty who focus on research and untenured faculty who focus on teaching.
None of this is to say that people with PhDs are unemployable, and the “crisis” in higher education has probably been overblown in the media. After all, people with PhDs have lower unemployment and earn more than people without. In some fields, like computer science and the life sciences, industry absorbs much of this “surplus,” and these industry jobs often pay better than positions in academia. Nevertheless, the current system results in tens of thousands of people who have received advanced training in a field that they are passionate about, but who are unable to find employment that actually makes use of their passion and expertise.
Some people have suggested that the solution is to reduce the number of PhDs produced, to better match the supply to the demand. However, this assumes that the traditional academic position is, in fact, the ideal for everyone. There are many reasons why people might choose to leave the golden path of the standard academic career. For many people, once they understand the realities of academia, an academic position is not plausible, or even desirable.
For some, it is the fact that the academic job market has long been national, and is increasingly global. If you want to be a professor, you had better be prepared to move to wherever the job is. This is the source of the “two-body problem” faced by many academics. The reality of the market is such that couples are often faced with an either/or situation. One of them has to sacrifice their own career aspirations so that their partner can accept a position.
For others, it is the academic lifestyle that is unappealing or unsustainable. A successful academic career typically requires sixty to seventy hour weeks, and most academics spend their “free” time reading papers and writing grant proposals. A friend confided that, with all of his obligations, his time to think about new research ideas was limited to two hours a day – between midnight at two a.m., after his family had gone to bed.
But what about everyone else, the people who can’t move thousands of miles for a faculty job, people whose family obligations make the sixty-hour work week impossible, or even those whose research doesn’t fit within the traditional academic boundaries? What do we do with everyone who has the skills and passion to make important contributions to scholarship, but for whom the standard model just doesn’t work?
Into the void steps “fractional scholarship.” Just as many people are participating in fractional entrepreneurship, starting companies in their spare time, there is an opportunity for people to take up scholarly research in an independent, part-time capacity. We believe that the number of people who have ten, twenty, or thirty hours a week that they would like to devote to research is large. What is lacking at this point are the funding and organizational structures to support these would-be fractional scholars.
While the concept of independent, fractional scholarship is an exciting one and one that we think has a great deal of potential, as we have argued in a Kauffman Foundation report, it can be difficult, if not impossible, for an individual to participate in scholarship on one’s own. Scholars typically rely on their institutional affiliations to facilitate publication and grant applications, as well as access to journal articles and a community of like-minded scholars.
One of us (Jon Wilkins), has set out to promote and support independent scholarly research through the founding of the Ronin Institute. The Ronin Institute acts as an aggregator for the fractional scholars of the world, providing an institutional affiliation, connection with other fractional scholars, and support for conference travel and grant applications.
When people are doing something that they are passionate about, they work harder and produce a better product. Thus, underemployed scholars represent in some sense a good that is currently trading well below its actual value. By providing a mechanism for those who wish to conduct research, we can allow these people to engage in their passions while growing the base of scholarly knowledge, which in turn has the potential to create further economic growth.
Through the Ronin Institute, we will be harnessing the skills and talents of thousands of underemployed researchers. At the same time, traditional academia will be aided in the creation of a new, attractive career path for people with graduate degrees. They will be performing creative research, some of which could not even be done within traditional academia, and at the same time acting as a newfound scholarly resource for our nation.
文章提到了一些数据 可以供以后想走faculty的筒子参考
还提到了一个解决奖学金问题的方案 就算学校提供部分奖学金 一个reseaecher由多人资助的方案 感觉很有bt下载感觉 或者用众包来形容更恰当？虽然略有些标题党
=========================================
The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute
by Samuel Arbesman, wired.comMay 1st 2012
This article was co-authored with Jon Wilkins, the founder of the Ronin Institute
When youe start graduate school, it is easy to imagine your future. You’ll finish your PhD, maybe spend a few years as a postdoc (depending on your field), and get a faculty position at a university. After a few years, you’ll get tenure and spend the rest of your life pursuing knowledge for its own sake, your research driven by your own passion and curiosity. And along the way, you will train the next generation of graduate students. Thus, the circle of academic life continues.
The problem is, this canonical career trajectory applies to only a small fraction of graduate students. And, as any tenured professor will tell you, bureaucratic obligations and the pressure to bring in grant money make this vision of academia unrealistic even for those who succeed in acquiring one of those increasingly rare tenured academic positions.
For a long time, universities have produced more PhDs than are strictly required to fill all of the academic positions. For example, between 2005 and 2009, more than 100,000 doctoral degrees were granted by American universities. During the same period, only 16,000 new faculty positions were created. Furthermore, universities are increasingly shifting to a two-tiered faculty system, with tenure track faculty who focus on research and untenured faculty who focus on teaching.
None of this is to say that people with PhDs are unemployable, and the “crisis” in higher education has probably been overblown in the media. After all, people with PhDs have lower unemployment and earn more than people without. In some fields, like computer science and the life sciences, industry absorbs much of this “surplus,” and these industry jobs often pay better than positions in academia. Nevertheless, the current system results in tens of thousands of people who have received advanced training in a field that they are passionate about, but who are unable to find employment that actually makes use of their passion and expertise.
Some people have suggested that the solution is to reduce the number of PhDs produced, to better match the supply to the demand. However, this assumes that the traditional academic position is, in fact, the ideal for everyone. There are many reasons why people might choose to leave the golden path of the standard academic career. For many people, once they understand the realities of academia, an academic position is not plausible, or even desirable.
For some, it is the fact that the academic job market has long been national, and is increasingly global. If you want to be a professor, you had better be prepared to move to wherever the job is. This is the source of the “two-body problem” faced by many academics. The reality of the market is such that couples are often faced with an either/or situation. One of them has to sacrifice their own career aspirations so that their partner can accept a position.
For others, it is the academic lifestyle that is unappealing or unsustainable. A successful academic career typically requires sixty to seventy hour weeks, and most academics spend their “free” time reading papers and writing grant proposals. A friend confided that, with all of his obligations, his time to think about new research ideas was limited to two hours a day – between midnight at two a.m., after his family had gone to bed.
But what about everyone else, the people who can’t move thousands of miles for a faculty job, people whose family obligations make the sixty-hour work week impossible, or even those whose research doesn’t fit within the traditional academic boundaries? What do we do with everyone who has the skills and passion to make important contributions to scholarship, but for whom the standard model just doesn’t work?
Into the void steps “fractional scholarship.” Just as many people are participating in fractional entrepreneurship, starting companies in their spare time, there is an opportunity for people to take up scholarly research in an independent, part-time capacity. We believe that the number of people who have ten, twenty, or thirty hours a week that they would like to devote to research is large. What is lacking at this point are the funding and organizational structures to support these would-be fractional scholars.
While the concept of independent, fractional scholarship is an exciting one and one that we think has a great deal of potential, as we have argued in a Kauffman Foundation report, it can be difficult, if not impossible, for an individual to participate in scholarship on one’s own. Scholars typically rely on their institutional affiliations to facilitate publication and grant applications, as well as access to journal articles and a community of like-minded scholars.
One of us (Jon Wilkins), has set out to promote and support independent scholarly research through the founding of the Ronin Institute. The Ronin Institute acts as an aggregator for the fractional scholars of the world, providing an institutional affiliation, connection with other fractional scholars, and support for conference travel and grant applications.
When people are doing something that they are passionate about, they work harder and produce a better product. Thus, underemployed scholars represent in some sense a good that is currently trading well below its actual value. By providing a mechanism for those who wish to conduct research, we can allow these people to engage in their passions while growing the base of scholarly knowledge, which in turn has the potential to create further economic growth.
Through the Ronin Institute, we will be harnessing the skills and talents of thousands of underemployed researchers. At the same time, traditional academia will be aided in the creation of a new, attractive career path for people with graduate degrees. They will be performing creative research, some of which could not even be done within traditional academia, and at the same time acting as a newfound scholarly resource for our nation.
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