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Category: academia-education

| | www.dubberly.com

[AI summary] The article discusses the need for a paradigm shift in design education to address complex, real-world challenges. It outlines the current limitations of design education, which often focuses on artifact-oriented problem-solving and lacks integration with emerging technologies and systems thinking. The text highlights the importance of rethinking design curricula to incorporate interdisciplinary approaches, critical thinking, and a broader understanding of social, environmental, and technological contexts. It also addresses the role of design in fostering innovation, sustainability, and societal impact, emphasizing the need for design education to evolve beyond traditional frameworks to better prepare students for the challenges of the future. T...
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| | christophersrose.com

"Alt-ac" and "career diversity" are buzzwords that essentially mean the same thing: those of us in graduate programs, especially doctoral programs, are statistically unlikely to land what used to be considered the gold standard for those with that particular academic credential, specifically the tenure-track (TT) job at a four year institution of higher learning. The...
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| | www.ethanrosenthal.com

A recent Twitter thread got me thinking back to the frustrations I felt working towards gaining non-research employment during the last year of my physics PhD program at Columbia University from 2014-2015. While I tried to participate in the thread, I had way too many thoughts for Twitter. A blog post felt more appropriate, so here it is. In summary, the thread was about the failure of physics PhD programs to provide adequate support for students who go on to non-research careers (i.
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