Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, THAT little school...;-)....I teach news writing, science feature writing, and starting in Feb. will be teaching a new course in documentary photography and photojournalism. B. D. George Day wrote: > 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. >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html