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
It is sunny, once again, and I love the light. I still cannot believe what Reeducation talked me into doing, how destructive it was, and how nobody would believe it. I so wish I had managed to leave the scene of the crime. Not being allowed to leave, of course, is the camp aspect of … More Le soleil, encore
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?
I woke up noticing that a large part of the anxiety and precarity is financial. I should do yoga and meditate so that I recognize this when it comes up and set it aside. How to increase income: promotion. The rest of it is the self-care issue which is really the self-love issue, as we … More Dimanche matin
It is this feeling of being indentured, of not having options (I used to believe I had realistic options, but this has not worked out to be entirely true), that I do not like. The best option now involves the Fullbright so I will NOT acquire any pets, and I will work on this. I … More What I thought this morning
I was thinking of the beautiful light, the January sky, the clear winter days when you can have the windows open. I was thinking of some people I know who do not converse. People for whom every conversation is a battle, and whose sentences are pre-emptive strikes against an imagined enemy. How they defend unhappiness … More Ce matin
1/ Here is a good post on the Schuman-Potter argument. 2.1/ A low-level tenured person who feels in some ways like a contingent person trying to get a job and wondering if they can stay in the alleged “profession” (not everyone calls it that), I always wake up at first light, even if I then … More What I was thinking this morning
My wing is ready to fly I would rather turn back For had I stayed mortal time I would have had little luck. – Gerhard Scholem, “Angelic Greetings” There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which … More Afsnit ni
It is capitalism. They are not ill, they are just expected not to take care of themselves and to be on call and alert all the time, performing. They have to claim mental health problems so as to receive authorization to live a normal life, with 7-8 hours’ sleep, some recreation, and some organized and … More Fragment
Now that my classes next semester are writing intensive, by decree, I must remember to use them, or at least one of them, to write a paper as well. I have that exceptionalism paper to write, and that earlier article to finish; for my modern Latin American course, where everyone is responsible for presenting work … More Advice to new faculty, versión infinita
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