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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photo grad school.
From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:48:17 -0600
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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photo grad school.


>
>
> 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.
> >
>
> B.D. replied:
> 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.

B.D.
My experience mirrors yours in this regard.  Here at NSU, while not
faculty, I'm included in faculty meetings, committees and many other
aspects of academic life.  The only thing I don't have to do that they
do is march in the commencement.

Regards,

Sonny



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