I should write that article, “What is a Scholar?” because I think the question explains a lot, the rules for being an academic, especially in the corporate university, are really different. I would understand a lot by doing it. I need to re-vision my trajectory in terms more like those Elizabeth sees. I am very … More Academic vs. Scholar, and related…plans
I can’t seem to comment on my other post so I will say here: Axé.
I’m letting this book go today, it’s too dated for me, that is, does not feel like a classic. Axé.
The authoritarian mindset is hard to break. Here are things I would like to express to leadership in our department but don’t think I will be allowed to. I despair of being comprehensible, although I consider these things simple, so I’ll note them for the future. They are things are to save the department, whose … More Countering the Authoritarian Mindset
More on hiring. The hire I want, one person to replace a just-retired professor and a retiring instructor, will be a forward-looking person with at least some of these characteristics (and/or other similar ones): * a research program they like, and that they can bring students in on, including for undergraduate research * the ability … More On hiring
It’s a brilliant site. I got this from them. Axé. ENTER SHADOWS Then I saw the shadow of the massive cypress tree split the queue of cars in two. How can a neighborhood be as narrow as Ramallah al-Tahta? How can one tree’s shadow be as vast as a border cleaving countries? How can night … More Poem per diem: Enter Shadows
I should write an article for Academe on this. People in their effort to be kind to the NTT are ending up speaking ill of their fields. A fundamental point, perhaps, is that people, including alleged progressives and union members, forget that tenure is about INTEGRITY. The AAUP says academic freedom and shared governance but … More On the value of the PhD and tenure
TRANSLATIONa huevo: to be aggressively seduced by an eggay diosito: the small god you thank because your hands existme hicieron ojo: my eyelashes flew one by one like a longing!señora studies: look, a map in the dirt of your mother’s hurtsempacho: you ate cactus until you burst open like a rotten fruittacos de cabeza: quandaries … More TRANSLATION (poem)
I worked for hours on a draft that got lost due to some Internet freeze I don’t understand. It’s a short memo and a lot of notes. I want to send ISP’s piece on saving the humanities to leadership, to accompany the other piece and my other request. It offers a different and more hopeful … More Lost post
…our toxic department? It’s not that students are losing interest in the field, it’s that we are alienating them because the toxicity is so evident. What is needed? Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 