«I am an appropriate hire because my degree granting institution is not far away. I know where the books I need are, and I have access to them. People from further away will be cut off from the books whose locations their professors showed them, and will thus be unable to do research.» A Ph.D. … More On research skills
…also involved is the question of being mugged by the victims, or by those who would become victims. Being pushed and pummelled by people who were feeling weak and who were not making good decisions, but whose continued good will I really needed, is of course my oldest story. At work one can add to … More More notes on being mugged
…to describe how I feel. It is said that bad things come in groups of three, and we have had three. That means the storm is over. But, this is how you kill departments: take faculty, take programs, and take funding, always saying each act is unrelated to the others (and, of course, that to … More Mugged is the word
What I am saying at school is, I want to hire, you make sure you cover that position which is important to several programs, how much money is in the line, can it be increased, can you supplement with a startup package or a reduction in teaching load for the first three years, I want … More Hay golpes en la vida
Eduardo Galeano´s famous phrase «the system vomits people» could be applied to academia and I need not explain why. I have just had an excellent semester – the best in years – and I fairly exude joy. But I want to hire and even in this market, which favors me, I appear not to have … More Related to systemic violence
Answers I gave to questions today included: – No, you cannot get that type and level of Federal funding for individual research in a field in which you have no education or practical experience. – No, what a class collectively pays in tuition and fees is not the amount an adjunct gets paid per course. … More Philistines
Para ver que todo se ha ido, para ver los huecos y los vestidos, ¡dame tu guante de luna, tu otro guante perdido en la hierba, amor mío! Puede el aire arrancar los caracoles muertos sobre el pulmón del elefante y soplar los gusanos ateridos de las yemas de luz o las manzanas. Los rostros … More Nocturno del hueco I
This is for the people who got letters denying tenure this semester, or terminating them at third or fourth year review. For grant proposals not funded, and especially for labs that lost their grants. It is for the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, brilliantly organized, and the Oregon teachers out on strike tonight. Axé.
We have had the Devil to pay lately, here in Maringouin. We have lost some people and a program. The above song sings to the 1964-84 Brazilian dictatorship that in spite of it, tomorrow is another day. And in life generally, we had so much advice on how to get things done. I, however, have … More The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
My professors had no idea how to work anywhere but an R1. By the time I got the Ph.D I had taken courses at five universities, but they were all R1 so that was the world I knew. The standard advice for professors is about how to work at an R1 and I am constantly … More Toda la vida
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