Gautam Mukunda wrote:
...
> Paul Wolfowitz's academic credentials are better than
> those of anyone on this list. As are Condi Rice's.
You refer to something like:
"For the last seven years, Dr. Wolfowitz has served as Dean and
Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins
University. SAIS is widely regarded as one of the world's leading
graduate schools of international relations..."
You are probably right, if International Relations
qualifies as an academic field. Technically it does, since
it is studied at colleges. But it seems too politicized for me
to grant it much respect.
Also note that being Dean is NOT an academic position,
it is administrative. The same goes for Ms. Rice's work as
Provost:
"In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford
University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief
budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a
$1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400
faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford
faculty since 1981
and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J.
Gores Award for
Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences
Dean's Award
for Distinguished Teaching."
Again, a good record at a top school, in a highly politicized
subject. Now how about Economics? Not that it has much predictive
value, but it should count as a real science...
---David
In my experience, real scholars avoid administrative work like
the plague! (I should know, it's my turn to be Chair...)
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