The end of an era
September 15, 2011
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Mentoring and the publication racket
September 10, 2011
Whether I think it sad or not, it is true. From postdocs to grad students to rotation students, summer interns and technicians…
The best thing to do as a mentor is to make sure they are on projects which earn them an authorship, preferably sooner rather than later.
Learning a bunch of stuff is comparatively less important.
A reaction to the racial disparity in NIH grant success rates
September 6, 2011
in which a picture is worth a thousand words….
but you need to go read the post by Hermitage.
Also, here’s a link to the Chronicle bit on the disparity in undergraduate scholarship awards mentioned in the post at The Hermitage.
White students make up 62 percent of full-time students enrolled in four-year colleges but receive 76 percent of institutional merit scholarships; and white students are 40 percent more likely to receive private scholarships than minority students are.
And the OER Rock Talk blog thread on the racial disparity continues…
