Get ready, University of Kansas. We expect to see a rush of horny dudes enrolling in journalism school classes if they catch a headline today on Jim Romenesko's blog: "Kansas University j-school enrollment is 70% female." All right!
Even more jaw-dropping was this quote from KU journalism school dean Ann Brill.
"It's probably a right brain/left brain thing," Brill told the Lawrence Journal-World. "That sounds sexist, but there's some truth to it. Another reason is probably because the salaries aren't great. A lot of men are more concerned with making money."Just when we were thinking Brill had seen too much Mad Men, we noticed this comment from her on the Romenesko post:
OMG! My own mother would chastise me if she thought I said these things. I hope readers of this story and my mother know I didn't say this stuff. When the freelancer asked me about the enrollment, this was a small part of the discussion, in which I said SOME people may say creativity has to do with right brain/left brain, but journalism engages the entire brain and while women are the majority of our enrollment, it could be more of a cyclical thing right now. Yes, salaries are low but I certainly never said men are more concerned about making money than being creative. On a more serious note, sexism has no place in journalism or journalism education. It's discouraging to me as a journalism educator to see the impression this story might leave with any readers.Way to dodge the deadly Lawrence Summers bullet, Professor Brill. That was close.
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