Education

New Study Ranking University Political Science Departments by Job Placement

July 23, 2007 @ 1:35 pm

There’s a new study out in the July 2007 issue (Vol.XL, No.3) of PS: Political Science & Politics, published by the American Political Science Association (APSA). It purports to rank universities by the quantity of quality job placements of the Ph.D.s graduating from their political science departments. 86 schools that awarded at least 30 Ph.D.s [...]

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End of Semester

May 20, 2005 @ 5:40 am

Whew! The semester is finally over and I survived intact with three A’s, and most of my students survived too! I finished grading Tuesday and, hopefullly!, finished with fielding questions about final exams and with the begging (and demanding!) for higher grades. My grade distribution turned out pretty skewed towards A’s and B’s, probably because [...]

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Science, Statistics, and Ideology

February 12, 2005 @ 1:16 pm

It’s funny… I was told by a professor in my department a while back that my beliefs on economics and political economy amounted to nothing more than ideology. Indeed, my “ideology” (libertarianism) made him, in his own words, uneasy. Well, it was his fault for asking ideologically-laden questions in class in the first place. One [...]

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My first syllabus is finished!

January 11, 2005 @ 4:53 pm

I finally put the finishing touches on the syllabus for my first college-level course. And the first day of class is only Tuesday, January 18th! The course is POLI 2060; that’s Introduction to Political Theory. The only hard requirements I had to follow in designing my course is that I had to cover Aristotle’s Ethics [...]

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From NASA to LSU? Please no…

December 14, 2004 @ 4:50 pm

Outgoing NASA chief Sean O’Keefe has thrown in his hat as a contender for the recently vacated Chancellorship of my alma mater, Louisiana State University. Fortune help us. The last thing LSU needs, if it is to improve its national standing among Research One universities, is the head of that supremely incompetent and inefficient bureaucracy, [...]

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