Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photo grad school.
From: George Day <george@rdcinteractive.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:03:57 -0800

B.D.,

What do you teach at MIT?  I spent some time at that other little school
down from you...


on 11/26/01 10:29 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Guy Bennett wrote:
> 
>>> Though much of this activity is
>> without significance in the "real world," real world values are meaningless
>> in the academy: it is a self-validating system that generally does not
>> recognize non-academic achievement.
>> 
> 
> 
> Actually, my experience has been precisely the opposite - While I agree
> entirely that virtually no one in the 'real world' gives a rat's behind
> about your academic credentials once you get past your first job, I have
> found that some folks in academia will grant 'equivalence' to certain
> real-world accomplishments when hiring for positions in academia. At
> both Harvard Medical School, where I was briefly the Director of Media
> Affairs and had an academic appointment, and at MIT, where I teach, my
> credentials in the world of journalism are viewed by academics as being
> the equivalent of a doctorate in their world. The bottom line, I
> believe, is that at these particular institutions the academics have
> enough self-confidence to understand that they know what they know, and
> that I know what I know, and what I know is as much of value to students
> as what they know. (Does that make sense:-) )
> 
> B. D.
> 
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Replies: Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] OT:Photo grad school.)