Re:Screwed up incentives in higher education
by thebooktocome on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:15AM
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Tell me about it. My boyfriend is in hospitality management, I'm in mathematics. Whereas I pull in enough to live comfortably in a single bedroom apartment downtown, he's on financial aid and living with two roommates on the outskirts.
It blew my mind when I found out.
Re:Screwed up incentives in higher education
by blasdel on Saturday November 27, 2010 @03:19AM
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What use would the government have funding market research for hotels? It's blatantly vocational, with even fewer pretenses to academics than MBA programs.
At least english majors don't have a profit motive!
Re:Screwed up incentives in higher education
by thebooktocome on Saturday November 27, 2010 @03:57AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality_management_studies
Without getting into specifics, my bf's research deals with epidemiology and things related to improving public health in the hospitality/tourism industry. Sure, at the undergrad level it's mostly vocational, but it's not like there's no public benefit to full-fledged academic research in this area.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that his work will probably have a greater positive net effect on society than mine will. But since math is a "real science", I make the "big bucks" (relative to graduate students, i.e., two steps above ramen-profitable).
In the hard sciences, yes. Much less so in other fields.