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Post by hoyaguy on Apr 9, 2022 14:51:50 GMT -5
This is messed up and sad to see this kind of attitude is everywhere
I hate the adjunct system in colleges today so many staffs are mostly underpaid adjuncts who see a fraction of a fraction of the tuition money paid for the classes they teach on their own
Didn’t realize teaching undergrads was so repulsive that they were allowed to hire more adjuncts than the significantly bigger college
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 9, 2022 15:09:35 GMT -5
1. The cogent points by this author are obliterated by his imperious attitude towards adjuncts, which are often different at GU than 99% of other universities. If a senior official from DOJ or State can lead a course with first-hand experience, there's value there, but the attitude that only tenure track professors are deemed worthy to teach is a poisonous one. He mentions "tenure" 32 times in the article.
2. His concerns/complaints about SFS fundraising are not grounded in fact. "Did we raise even half of that and what was it used for? Who knows? No one ever told us," he writes. Did he ask? The campaign data is available through Advancement. Was he expecting a new ICC?
3. Finally, it's easy to complain when you've got tenure. In what roles in SFS is he doing something about it?
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 10, 2022 10:45:27 GMT -5
I don't want to rehash things that happened over a decade ago, so I'm just going to leave it at this, speaking as a former SFS employee: take anything Jacques says with a *big* grain of salt. The kind of person who would publicly refer to his (almost all far less well-paid than he) colleagues in the Dean's Office as "apparatchiks" - in the middle of a brutal Russian war of aggression, no less - is... the kind of person you can safely assume has some other issues with how they treat those around them.
The slam at the World Bank for the sole purpose of throwing shade at Joel Hellman is also tellingly petty.
One of the nice things about having spent the last 9-ish years as a management consultant is that I can apply that lens back to my time in the SFS as both student and employee and better understand the causes and dynamics underpinning some of the dysfunction we've all observed. There have been various internal examinations and studies and audits and the like. At the same time, standing up a more persistent "performance assessment" function is an area in which the ivory tower has lagged, not just due to the typical institutional inertia, but because of radically competing definitions of "performance."
This particular polemic adds far more heat than light, which is a shame.
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Post by SDHoya on Apr 10, 2022 11:34:09 GMT -5
Among the adjunct professors I took classes from while in the SFS, there was a former US ambassador to the UN, a former US ambassador to Costa Rica, and a (then) current Chinese diplomat stationed in DC. I also never had any trouble finding classes taught by tenured professors. The SFS is in a unique position, compared to other similar institutions focusing on international studies, to bring in adjuncts who are not just filling in numbers to keep costs down for the university, but rather to bring the realest of real world experiences.
I never for a moment felt my IPOL curriculum was "incoherent". Does any SFS student really question why economics courses are mandatory in an international studies program?
Granted, my experience is a few years old, but I can't believe the curriculum has changed all that much from my time on the Hilltop.
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Post by KenteKrazies on Apr 10, 2022 12:30:13 GMT -5
Among the adjunct professors I took classes from while in the SFS, there was a former US ambassador to the UN, a former US ambassador to Costa Rica, and a (then) current Chinese diplomat stationed in DC. I also never had any trouble finding classes taught by tenured professors. The SFS is in a unique position, compared to other similar institutions focusing on international studies, to bring in adjuncts who are not just filling in numbers to keep costs down for the university, but rather to bring the realest of real world experiences. I never for a moment felt my IPOL curriculum was "incoherent". Does any SFS student really question why economics courses are mandatory in an international studies program? Granted, my experience is a few years old, but I can't believe the curriculum has changed all that much from my time on the Hilltop. Current student here. I also found the article quite silly. I'd much rather take classes with "adjust" professors with real world experiences in IOs and meaningful companies than tenured academics who lean particularly hard on theory.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Apr 10, 2022 13:46:12 GMT -5
As a College grad I was surprised and confused to see what appeared to be a shot at Map of the Modern World. Isn’t “Map” one of the highlights of being an SFS student? I remember being somewhat jealous of my SFS friend when he talked about it.
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Post by SDHoya on Apr 11, 2022 10:40:16 GMT -5
As a College grad I was surprised and confused to see what appeared to be a shot at Map of the Modern World. Isn’t “Map” one of the highlights of being an SFS student? I remember being somewhat jealous of my SFS friend when he talked about it. I loved Map--but then again I was the type of kid who would memorize every world flag, so it was kinda right up my alley. Some people people weren't as into it, and Pirlte was definitely an acquired taste (he doesn't still teach it does he? He must be about 900 by now). But as far as I was concerned, it was a more than "coherent" part of an international studies curriculum, and a right of passage for those of us who chose the SFS over a zillion other IR programs around the country.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2022 11:54:06 GMT -5
As a College grad I was surprised and confused to see what appeared to be a shot at Map of the Modern World. Isn’t “Map” one of the highlights of being an SFS student? I remember being somewhat jealous of my SFS friend when he talked about it. I loved Map--but then again I was the type of kid who would memorize every world flag, so it was kinda right up my alley. Some people people weren't as into it, and Pirlte was definitely an acquired taste (he doesn't still teach it does he? He must be about 900 by now). But as far as I was concerned, it was a more than "coherent" part of an international studies curriculum, and a right of passage for those of us who chose the SFS over a zillion other IR programs around the country. The link I provided in a previous post was about his retrospective on MOTW and he retired in 2005. Slightly off topic, my nephew is getting his MA in IR. Accepted within 2 weeks of applying to Fletcher School with 8k in aid. 4 weeks later Columbia accepted him with 30k in aid. A week later, SAIS at Hopkins accepted him and offered 43k aid first year, renewable second year if he maintains a 3.4 GPA. Of course SFS comes in 3 weeks prior to the uniform reply date (April 15th) with ZERO aid offered. Go figure. He's going to SAIS.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 11, 2022 12:32:28 GMT -5
Of course SFS comes in 3 weeks prior to the uniform reply date (April 15th) with ZERO aid offered. Go figure. He's going to SAIS. MSFS has a paucity of graduate scholarships: less than 30, many reserved for second year students. The claim is 30-40% of the class gets aid, but that may include teaching assistantships or research. msfs.georgetown.edu/admissions/finaid/scholarships/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2022 12:55:47 GMT -5
Of course SFS comes in 3 weeks prior to the uniform reply date (April 15th) with ZERO aid offered. Go figure. He's going to SAIS. MSFS has a paucity of graduate scholarships: less than 30, many reserved for second year students. The claim is 30-40% of the class gets aid, but that may include teaching assistantships or research. msfs.georgetown.edu/admissions/finaid/scholarships/Georgetown was his first choice. I'll let him know.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Apr 12, 2022 5:36:39 GMT -5
Among the adjunct professors I took classes from while in the SFS, there was a former US ambassador to the UN, a former US ambassador to Costa Rica, and a (then) current Chinese diplomat stationed in DC. I also never had any trouble finding classes taught by tenured professors. The SFS is in a unique position, compared to other similar institutions focusing on international studies, to bring in adjuncts who are not just filling in numbers to keep costs down for the university, but rather to bring the realest of real world experiences. I never for a moment felt my IPOL curriculum was "incoherent". Does any SFS student really question why economics courses are mandatory in an international studies program?Granted, my experience is a few years old, but I can't believe the curriculum has changed all that much from my time on the Hilltop. That comment was just as confusing to me as the Map one.
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