coldhearted scientist وداد

I can’t seem to comment on my other post so I will say here: 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

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

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.