Advising students on grad school?

[jimbogumbo]

I've spoken to colleagues at Artem U in the humanities who tell me the job market is so awful, and the number of applicants so high, that just cherry picking the Harvard, Stanford, Chicago types is easier than reviewing 300 applications from The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

Unless, of course, their PhD is in music, and their supervisor was Peter Schickele.

Or you want faculty who focus on Mott the Hoople?

Or a PhD in quirky comedy.

[dinomom]

I'd tell them they they should go to grad school with hopes of becoming a professor if they can do it for free, and also get a stipend for their expenses.  But it would be a bad idea to go into debt to do it.

Agreed on this point.

[writingprof]

I've spoken to colleagues at Artem U in the humanities who tell me the job market is so awful, and the number of applicants so high, that just cherry picking the Harvard, Stanford, Chicago types is easier than reviewing 300 applications from The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

Ah, see, we go in the other direction.  An applicant from Harvard would never be happy here, so we save hu the trouble of discovering that on hu's own.  Indeed, our preferences are (in descending order)

1) our own B.A. graduates who have a master's degree in their field and an Ed.D. from an online for-profit,
2) people from Hoople,
3) local preachers and daycare workers who can teach "Leadership Studies" for a few semesters before the accreditors catch on.

[Hibush]

I've spoken to colleagues at Artem U in the humanities who tell me the job market is so awful, and the number of applicants so high, that just cherry picking the Harvard, Stanford, Chicago types is easier than reviewing 300 applications from The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

Ah, see, we go in the other direction.  An applicant from Harvard would never be happy here, so we save hu the trouble of discovering that on hu's own.  Indeed, our preferences are (in descending order)

1) our own B.A. graduates who have a master's degree in their field and an Ed.D. from an online for-profit,
2) people from Hoople,
3) local preachers and daycare workers who can teach "Leadership Studies" for a few semesters before the accreditors catch on.

At least the Hoopleites are entrertaining. Ya gotta work with watcha got.