From lauanger@mail.coin.missouri.edu Sun Jan 17 00:46:32 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id AAA30928 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:46:31 -0800 Received: from coins0.coin.missouri.edu (lauanger@coins0.coin.missouri.edu [198.209.253.1]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id AAA31596 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:46:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lauanger@localhost) by coins0.coin.missouri.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id CAA29003; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:46:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:46:27 -0600 (CST) From: Lisa Auanger X-Sender: lauanger@coins0.coin.missouri.edu To: Classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Are Classics elitist? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII AK's post reminds me that the Chronicle of Higher Education now has stories about the job market available through its current week job section. Last week, or so, for example, one story included the text of the 1940 AAUP Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure. (One should probably memorize this? :-) ) And another story reports that results of a more recent Survey of Earned Doctorates will be available online (though this may be just science and engineering since the NSF seems the link--it would be nice if APA or AIA did the humanities data.) The survey could be especially useful in determining if Classics is in fact more elitist than other disciplines. I was pleased to see that one of the questions (when I did mine) was about parental education. Is it still the case, I wonder, that there is about a 1 to 7 ratio of doctorates from families with parents with higher education than without? This data seems suppressed frequently when tabulated and published in popular media. I suppose I'll have to put this on my list of things to learn more about. Lisa Auanger (who had some days of solid sleep with a winter cold and now, of course, is wide awake...) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lisa Auanger, Ph.D. Columbia, Missouri 65201 ................................................. >From Robert Frost, *Pan with us*: They were pipes of pagan mirth, And the world had found new terms of worth. He [Pan] laid him down on the sun-burned d earth And ravelled a flower and looked away-- Play? Play?--What should he play? .