I keep thinking: if I just do this, if I just do that, if I just mollify them in this way or stand up to them in that way, if I just improve myself in this direction or that, and so on, they will stop obstructing me and mine and stop making it so hard … More One way you can tell I have an abusive work situation
Evidently I am still considering this question. Tonight at the football game, which was hard fought, I was noticing how much it resembled work at the university. You struggle and struggle to open a space for yourself in which to work. You are paid to get your ball across that line but they have people … More More on renunciation
Jedi Mind Tricks for Faculty Productivity, #10. I love it. This is Reply #10: My morning routine: While my computer boots up I – Read one journal article (20 min) Proof the current article I am working on (10 min) Check and revise outline for the current project. (5 min) When that is done – … More Reply #10
Well, at my R1s we had those things and in my experience it was freeing, not limiting: you knew exactly what the program was, and then you got to decide what you wanted to do to meet the goals. When I worked at my SLAC, we had vague program goals and courses were more free … More “If we have common syllabi, policies, exam formats and so on, we will have uniformity and will all just be teaching to the tests.”
GOOD: The Emeritus Professor, back then. In elementary school when I wrote my first research paper he explained how to plan a project. How much time do you have, weeks to deadline? How long must the paper be, and how short can it be? How much time per day do you have to devote to … More On good and bad mentors
At Dame Eleanor Hull work is being done on two sets of questions. One set is on mentoring: Do you feel you were well-mentored, ill-mentored, or just not mentored? What was the best piece of advice you got from a mentor? Where did one of yours go spectacularly wrong? How are you/would you like to … More Meta-research
As we know, I am in a writing group and committed to do research and ideally, writing daily. I always have a few minutes for this, no matter what, but I want to spend more time than that. I need to, if I am to get anything truly significant accomplished. I also deserve to because … More Public Opinion Poll
Z, speaking in foreign: What changes would you make in the United States if you were President? (This is designed to elicit use of the conditional tense.) Students, speaking in foreign: We would abolish the distinction between church and state. This happened, yes. Axé.
1. I am not a full professor so I do not say so in my signature line. Some of the instructors, however, the ones with the M.A.s, sign like this: Rex Prince Professor of English Vichy State University This is why the students obey them more easily, and believe they supervise the assistant and associate … More Coda to understanding everything.
We have established that many put teaching far ahead of research and/or life far ahead of work, but others want to be virtuosos and put that first, naturally. I am in this group and I thought ours was the standard attitude. But it is not necessarily. Locally, we struggle for tenure or promotion while others … More Now I understand everything.
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