links for 2010-01-05

Oversupply? Is academia a demand or supply-driven business?

"With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature is bleaker than ever before."

So true.

"But this is old news. What gets me about this piece, I realized, is how it's framed. It equates "the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature" with "the academic job market:" there's no sense that Ph.D.s might be capable of doing SOMETHING ELSE with all that knowledge. Demonstrably wrong, guys."