Let us take a moment and thank corporate America for introducing merit pay to higher education: THANK YOU!
The American Association of University Professors launched a new online journal, The Journal of Academic Freedom. If you manage to separate yourself from that icanhascheezburger rss feed, give it a read. Robert P. Engvall’s take on merit pay and the corporatization of higher education is definitely worth looking at:
Academia is not like corporate America. Rather than lamenting that, we should embrace those differences, realizing that the education of people is an entirely different endeavor than the creation of other, more measurable “products.”
Well said, but … B.A.s are already marketed like bags of Cheetos. Good gravy, Higher education can’t get enough of that sweet corporate lovin’! Sooooooooooooooo professor-types: Enjoy merit pay and all the other crappy ideas concocted by Corporate America Chowderheads. Because come on, measuring “excellence” in higher education isn’t that ridiculous!
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