April 28, 2011

Academic Picking

Students are picked by universities.
Faculty members are picked by departments.
Postdoctoral fellows are picked by principal investigators.
Principal investigators are picked by grant committees.
Papers are picked by journals.

All that picking presupposes scarcity.

What happens when:
Universities aren't the only way get a education.
The grant system isn't the only way to conduct groundbreaking research.
Killing trees isn't the only to communicate science.

This post was inspired by Seth Godin's post.

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