“Publish or Perish: A Well-Liked Professor is Bumped by
Rutgers” was the title of the New York Times story that described
Professor Richard L. Barr who had received three teaching awards at Rutgers
University over his six years of teaching, only to find that his contract would
not be renewed because he was not publishing as many pages as other profs.
Rutgers University receives a large amount of funding for
‘research’ that it has to show something for, thus pressuring professors to do
‘research’ at the expense of teaching to produce writing that proves they are
making progress, at least to the naive.
Problem is, the
University cut Professor Barr off because his writing was “not so thick as the usual
packet for tenure”; just because Psalms and Jeremiah are the two longest books
in the Bible, with over 42,000 words each, does not mean they are the most
important, a principal that should easily be recognized in universities being
that it took Charles Darwin 20 years to write 230 pages of theory [1].
Thus, quality has sunk
in the pool of quantity.
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