Return-Path: sendmail 8.6.4/UCSD-2.2-sun Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:15:47 -0800 for socgrad-list Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:15:40 -0800 for From: Melissa R Herman Subject: Re: hiring To: KLOSKY@VM1.NoDak.EDU Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 18:00:04 -0800 (PST) Dec 5, 93 01:19:55 pm Another forward for the group... ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > In response to others -- I still don't see it... Let me try to explain. > 1. A school says that they will teach people about sociology. > 2. They graduate a student, saying they have an understand of sociology. > 3. The school won't hire the graduate because they don't have a DIVERSE > understanding of sociology. > For 3. to be true, than 1. or 2. has to be false. Either the school isn't > teaching DIVERSITY of thought, or the schools graduate students too early, > without enough education..... Skee, I don't think 3 is true. People have been saying that schools won't hire their own because it's incestuous, has role complications, it's better for networking, it duplicates skills already in the dept., and various other reasons--not that their own grads aren't qualified. -- Melissa Herman manoki@leland.stanford.edu Department of Sociology Phone: (415) 723-1706 Stanford University Office: 126, Building 460