After many years of struggle our problems were solved, not because we won at last but because an administration came in that had no interest in obstructing our work.
In the meantime we worked on slow reforms and tried to follow the advice there is about how to rise above things. But the fact is that you cannot do that in a hostile environment with major obstruction.
This is why I so criticize standard academic advice: I resent the assumption I see in it, that if anything is wrong it is because you do not understand the system or you have not learned to manage things.
I think the AAUP Redbook might be a better place to start — start, mind you — seeking academic advice.
Why does academic advice always presupposes an adequate situation and an inadequate advisee?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 