Thanks to Daniel O'Connell for calling my attention to this:
Taylor’s data-free ruminations bear as much connection to the actual world of higher education as Scientology does to particle physics. He’s the fellow that bemoaned per-course salaries “as low as” five grand (!) and basically acts as if you could still arm-chair analyze the academic labor system, which is nearly 80% contingent, as if it were a “market” in tenure-track jobs.
Taylor’s retread analysis is straight outta 1972: “If you were a CEO,” he begins, and races downhill from there. Dunno, Mark: If I was the CEO of my neighborhood… If I was the CEO of my marriage… If I was the CEO of this poker game… If I was the CEO of your church… If I was the CEO of the planet… If my dad were my CEO… If I were the CEO of this one-night stand… If I was the CEO of this classroom… If I was the CEO of this audience at this Green Day concert…
Gosh, Mark. Seems like some social organizations and relationships shouldn’t have CEOs at all.
It turns out, by the way, that the professor launching ignorant broadsides against university education is the co-founder of an organization devoted to marketting online education. I would have thought the NY Times could spot such a transparent conflict of interest.
UPDATE: Someone at the Times wrote to point out that Professor Taylor's online education business is now defunct, which means he doesn't have a current financial interest in misleading the public about higher education. So what is his interest, apart from attracting attention to himself? Hmmm.
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