The Insecurity of Higher Ed Research

“Academics are often characterized (and caricatured) as pompous, confident that they are the smartest people in the room and eager to prove it. But arrogance and insecurity are sometimes flip sides of one coin, and the professoriate has seen a rash lately of scholars expressing dismay at their perceived marginalization – sociologists awaiting calls from the Obama administration, for instance, and political scientists reiterating calls for more grounding for their discipline in ‘the real world’ …” (more)

[Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 9 November]