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These references are about 5 years old now in 2003; some
(about jobs) could be dated,
others are timeless and still true.
Liberal Education and Jobs
Prof. Al Clark's
Acceptance Remarks
for a 1998 Goergen Award for outstanding achievement in undergraduate education.
If your major worry is money and a job,
here is why you don't have to worry about
bad grades! Business Week says
"Send Nerds!"
1998 N.Y. Times article on same subject as above. You don't
need school to make a living... but you might need it to know what
Life's about!
Is Industry Eating Our Seed Corn?
Wait! Are the last two links simply a myth? Do you think
programming is a secure profession? Well, take
This!
Internal and External Links
Instructor Personality and the Politics of the Classroom: the place of
Student Evaluations.
What Students Say about a
Hard Grader.
(This guy's bragging but it gives your instructor something to aim
for.)
Pointer into the Educational Policy Archives. In this volume there's
an article on
Grade Inflation
by Stone.
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