[What do people think about this Chronicle article on Columbia English?]

1 hour ago, wordstew said:

This article is yet another disturbing example of blunted and unhelpful reporting in the CHI on the collapse of the profession. Kramnick and Cassuto frequently appear in the pages of the CHI and they both have asinine and clueless perspectives on the state of the profession. Kramnick looks out from the protection of his New Haven Tudor castle to offer commentary on the state of the job market that is about as informative as groundhog day. And Cassuto keeps deluding himself that misinformed ideas about work outside of academia have any currency or relevance to the various industries and institutions that he feels confident to pontificate about. It's all nonsense, and it's all an example of the lazy ease with which privileged academics assuage their guilt and culpability when they watch the young starve. Here's the situation as it currently stands: there are virtually no tenure-track jobs in English that a young scholar can obtain. Even the adjunct positions in literary studies are drying up. You wouldn't know it from the foolish nonsense posted on this web forum by uninformed people who are struggling to gain entry into these deluded places. But it's clear that people who have suffered these realities can admonish prospective students until they're blue in the face, and it will just make them feel that an opportunity--that doesn't exist anymore--is being denied to them. If Columbia was serious about addressing the fact that most of its prized PhDs will no longer find gainful employment in the academy, it would have to dramatically curtail the resources it puts into graduate education. And that's something that will continue to be met with deep resistance by the likes of Kramnick and Cassuto and their colleagues who will do anything to convince themselves that their genius can only be realized (and worshipped) in the graduate seminar full or eager disciples furiously studying for their under(or un)employment. 

A lot of this is new information, thanks.

[What do people think about this Chronicle article on Columbia English?]

3 hours ago, mandelbulb said:

there's a pay wall, buddy.

Yeah sorry about that. Try opening from here instead?: https://mobile.twitter.com/emmajanepettit/status/1164295830796406784?s=21

[What do people think about this Chronicle article on Columbia English?]

Hi folks, I saw this article circulating on Twitter about Columbia’s failure at placing its Ph.D.s in TT jobs and the large size of its incoming cohort, and I’m curious what does GradCafe think about it. Here is the link to the piece: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Columbia-Had-Little-Success/246989

”The news was grim. Columbia University’s English department had failed to place a single current Ph.D. candidate into a tenure-track job this year. And 19 new doctoral students had accepted admission into the program, raising questions about why the cohort is so large when the job prospects aren’t plentiful. This had ‘given rise to some alarm,’ concerned graduate students wrote in an April 30 letter to department leadership.”

[Here Comes the Sun/ Waitlist Movements]

Just now, amphilanthus said:

i emailed the director of graduate admissions!

Thank you so much and congratulations on your waitlist!!

[Here Comes the Sun/ Waitlist Movements]

Hi, may I ask those who emailed UVA — who are you supposed to email for an update on your application status?