On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More How inflammatory is this?
It is from 1940. I am told that it therefore: (a) lacks modernity (it is old, so it must be antiquated), (b) is unnecessary (we all believe in these principles, so there is no need to write them down), and at the same time (c) is unaffordable (back in the thriving economy of the 1930s … More That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
Remember, if I publish one to five paragraphs like this locally, everyone will know to which meetings I refer and of whom I speak. Current paragraph one: The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates … More Watch my tone
xdanne: Boice encourages not word count but “# of typed page equivalents” which are then charted in relation to “”# of hrs. spent writing”. You thus get a neat little productivity graph which becomes a writing goal in and of itself. I too dislike the dog-training aspect of behavioral approaches. I don’t want to tell … More An anti-Boicean dialogue with xdanne
Some people are learning not to speak up and in academia, this is typically how one is coached: do not say anything, all you will do is ruin your credibility as a reasonable person. I disagree and I think people should learn that to speak up, you do not have to be outraged or impassioned. … More On speaking up
This is apparently the current meme. Meanwhile I railed against negativity in the writing group today. I have never been an adjunct so I speak from “privilege” but believe me when I tell you I have been through more kinds of academic hell than most people still left standing. In particular I know what it … More Life after tenure
Myths professors live by. Read, then act. Axé.
This looks a little more modern than it does when you see it in person, but yes — we do have concentration camps with slave labor doing factory work for corporations. I still say work on this is the most important of the things I do, and I really wish I were empowered to work … More Angola bound
This is of course the 82d anniversary of the founding of the 2d Spanish Republic on 14 April 1931. In Madrid today it is sunny and there are crowds at the Puerta del Sol and elsewhere waving Republican flags. Here is a photograph uploaded to Facebook seven minutes ago by my friend, República Española: It … More Salud y República
José Luis Sampedro died April 8, at 96. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 