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by AtlasBarfed 1937 days ago
Seems to me that professorships are so rare and prized that the academic underpinnings of earning them are being hollowed out of the original idealism. Marketing, perception, reputation, and funding are more important.

Huh, which is the exact same problems the foundations of the entire higher educational system in the US has rotted out from.