i enjoyed the reading by Martin. In many of the points he made were very crusial to undertand how most of our research are funded and how the results are distributed among the funders. the agenda who gives the largest amount of money will be kept in focus compare to its competitors who wants to follow similar research. we see how universities and colleges have turned in to deciplines, who bagain against themselves for funding. the elite member of every discipline wants to protect the core believe of his/her discipline. but my target of this reading which i find it so interesting is about student and professors.
Martin said that students are not in school for the knowledge but for the credentials. what does this means to our society? this means that students will go to any extreme to get what he/she is in school for, students will cheat in all sorts of ways from replicating their peers work to passing answers and question of exams.
inspite of what the students are doing to get credentials, professors are mostly focus on publications. at cuny, to keep tenur as a professor, you most have publish a few books and journals. professors care more about publishing and maintaining their jobs. i believe also that a good grade of students reflect a better teacher. hence if students cheat to have good grades with no knowledge and the teacher is publishing as required then the discipline may more funds.
