I must decide about this by 30 March. I really do not need another conference this year, but this is in Mexico. It is soon after LASA, June 9-12, and my idea is to give a version of the LASA paper there, and be there for purposes of seeing other sessions and just to be … More Congreso IILI
The URL to the Daily Bruin image of an internal memo on travel reimbursements for UCLA faculty and administrators is http://dailybruin.com/images/2014/02/02-04-2014_rotated.pdf. Domestically you may not exceed 200% of the Federal per diem for lodging, and internationally you may not exceed 300%. Meals should not exceed 200% of the University per diem, and if I am … More UCLA Travel Budgets
Philology was, however, also understood in very different terms, not as an empirical study of a limited field, but as a speculative undertaking oriented toward deep time and distant things. In “We Philologists,” written in 1874, Nietzsche registered his contempt for most philologists, whose work impressed him as an absurd combination of inconsequentiality and hubris. … More On Philology
I dressed up today exactly like myself as a freshman (the somewhat Sontag-like Look involves clog boots, jeans, dark sunglasses, a Danish messenger bag and a thick turtleneck). Given that I also wore a jacket I bought with an early TA check the first day of class this semester, I consider that my plan to … More Fashion, nationality…
My subunit does in fact use adjuncts. The people we hire as adjuncts are people we also hire as FTEs. They teach 5 courses for their FTE, and then 1-2 more as adjuncts. Another department’s chair points out that this amounts to discrimination against my discipline: lower division students in it have to have overworked … More On the adjunct situation
→I woke up and did not even have to talk myself into getting up, so I must be improving. I have had good dreams for two days. I still say I threw my life away. However, I am only teaching three classes and they are all interesting. →This blog gathered together some interesting old posts, … More Le samedi
What I just said on e-mail: Est-ce que j’ai dit oui a cette date et oublié? Je ne m’en souviens pas et je ne trouve rien dans le courriel de l’automne. Parlons cette semaine, à voir s’il y a une solution — je ne veux pas détruire le programme. What it is about: Last spring … More What would you do?
We have 3 research faculty with PhDs and 5 instructors with MAs, and we give 68 regular courses per year. PhDs make on average $50K, and instructors on average $40K, so we have $350K in salary among us. We are all on the machine-run budget, i.e. on hard money lines, not soft money (the adjunct … More What we could do to contribute to solving the “adjunct crisis”
About this: should we rethink the language requirement? Here is why I ask: the options, for action on the “adjunct crisis,” appear to be cutting the number of students allowed to finish graduate programs, so as to reduce the alleged overproduction of Ph.D.s, or making sure people who do the Ph.D. are also trained for … More Should we recast the language requirement?
A book I used used long ago in Spanish 202 is now being used in Spanish 431. It could mean that the quality of our language program has decreased sharply, or that this faculty member is not very demanding. It explains why the students found my Spanish 432 so difficult last year, though. What book … More Too hot for Facebook
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