it has been a toxic department for several decades....nothing new:)
Avoid Maryland AREC for PhD
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
They aren't bad placements if your whole purpose is to get out of a sh1thole country. That is reflected in their students.
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
This. I came into an ag econ PhD right around the top of the academic hiring bubble in env/res around 2014-2016. Misread the market terribly, this new postdoc equilibrium is here to stay it seems. RUN away from this field unless you truly love it for the long haul.
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What's wrong with Holzer?
He's not terrible (not as bad as Lichtenberg or Olson). But he's not that smart. And if you have him as an advisor, you're not going to get a good job. Why force us to take a class with him and make it hard to take classes with faculty students actually want?
I only know him through conferences, but I don't have the same impression and I'd be interested in students doing work like his. Perhaps resources isn't the focus of the most recent cohorts? Maybe it's a cohort-specific thing for the other two as well.
Same here. I like his work.
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He's not terrible (not as bad as Lichtenberg or Olson). But he's not that smart.
Fine. Holzer is not that smart. But Ken Leonard is d.um.ber. Ken is the mon.key in reg monk.ey.
Williams is an extremely irrespon.sible lecturer and advisor. His style is basically : I dont do anything but I expect you to figure out ABCDEF, if you dont , I fail you out. Ask Gauruv who met him only twice for qualifying paper and was failed out for "not making enough effort". Think twice.
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Olson reads off his notes and doesn't explain things very well if at all. But he understands the techniques himself. Lichtenberg doesn't have a clue what he is doing yet expects to be admired for rub/bi/sh he ch.urn/ed ou.t 30 years ago. His lack of intelligence is openly des.pi.sed by Lopez and Chambers. The only thing he does with any success is a.bu.se inst/itutio/nal power against juniors and students. God forbid he ever retires or becomes less cruel or evil. Nobody wants AREC to become a better place. Nobody wants Lichtenberg a shorter sen/ten/ce in he.l.l.
REMINDER: DON'T GO TO MARYLAND AREC FOR YOUR PHD
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Holzer is extremely narc.issi.st.ic.
His daughter called him genius. He vented his anger with his old kids on third world RA.That third world RA did not happen to be a typical third-worlder. She threw 20k back at Holzer to return his financial aid and walked away.
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