Professors
topic on 6 shows · 11 statements across 8 episodes
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11 statements about Professors, every show
Laqua: Learning online and with AI is superior to university professors
“You can learn all the material online, you can learn all the material with an LOM much better than you can from some professor.”
Lonsdale: University administration size tripled over 20 years
“One is that the administration size has tripled over the last 20 years, and these people tend to be, there's been reports showing them, they tend to be more extreme than professors.”
Andreessen: Top university professors earn between $200,000 and $1,000,000
“Top professors make, you know, anywhere between, I don't know, probably 200 to 200,000 to a million dollars, depending on what field they're in.”
Horowitz: Universities should pay competitive-field professors significantly higher salaries
“Like, I mean, I think that if you're designing the system from scratch, at least I would probably pay professors much, much more, particularly in fields that are highly competitive, like, you know, computer science or You know, physics are things where like, i…”
Andreessen: Research output, not teaching, determines academic tenure and hiring
“Professors get hired and get tenure in large part of the basis of their research in contrast to their teaching.”
Kanelos: UATX received over 3,500 faculty inquiries in its first week
“Within the first week of our launch between Monday and Friday, we received over 3500 inquiries from professors at other universities Asking about careers at the university of Austin, a university that doesn't yet exist.”
Lonsdale: Tech Innovators Are Often Brighter Than Most Top Professors
“I believe that a lot of my friends in the innovation world are actually, in many cases, brighter than the vast majority of professors at top schools, and they have very dynamic minds, and they've created lots of huge, amazing things, they're pushing things for…”
Emailing university professors for top student recommendations is an underutilized recruiting tactic
“Don't forget that professors know also what the best, like who the best students are. And so you're hitting on like a really good, like secret, meaning like not many people do this, but I've been doing it like my whole career, like email professors, Get, get t…”
Haidt: University administrators reflexively surrender to student demands for emotional safety
“It leads to an attitude in which everyone is afraid to judge on a case-by-case basis, and the response is pretty much always to give the students what they want. So individual professors do that. Administrators do that. And so if students are saying that somet…”
Gill: Chinese professors quit to make millions podcasting
“There's been, ah, basically professors that have quit their teaching positions to be full-time podcasters because they quite literally make millions of dollars podcasting.”
Gill: Future professors will monetize like branded sports stars
“Imagine professors as the sports stars of the future where, oh yeah, what are you wearing? What are you sponsored by? But that sort of means of monetization and where, where it's going for educational content. We think that that personal brand will become more…”