"This is all old dull news ... Search out a book from about 50 years ago"

Holy shit! They had website hit counts 50 years ago, and were writing about
it! Please tell me more, professor.


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> socialismorbarbarism
> >
> > "some tenure evaluations are conducted by counting 'hits'"
> >
> > Holy shit. Is this true? Anyone in academe out there heard of/seen such a
> > thing? Lepore throws it out in a parenthetical statement (well, between
> two
> > em-dashes) as if it shouldn't surprise anybody. Well, maybe it shouldn't,
> but
> > my first reaction on reading this was, "That's bullshit." Does anyone
> know
> > more?
>
> -------------
>
> Search out a book from about 50 years ago (around 1960) entitled The
> Academic Market Place.
>
> This is all old dull news and really isn't relevant for any serious
> consideration of universities in the U.S.
>
> Carrol
>
>
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