More on hiring. The hire I want, one person to replace a just-retired professor and a retiring instructor, will be a forward-looking person with at least some of these characteristics (and/or other similar ones): * a research program they like, and that they can bring students in on, including for undergraduate research * the ability … More On hiring

I should write an article for Academe on this. People in their effort to be kind to the NTT are ending up speaking ill of their fields. A fundamental point, perhaps, is that people, including alleged progressives and union members, forget that tenure is about INTEGRITY. The AAUP says academic freedom and shared governance but … More On the value of the PhD and tenure

I worked for hours on a draft that got lost due to some Internet freeze I don’t understand. It’s a short memo and a lot of notes. I want to send ISP’s piece on saving the humanities to leadership, to accompany the other piece and my other request. It offers a different and more hopeful … More Lost post

…our toxic department? It’s not that students are losing interest in the field, it’s that we are alienating them because the toxicity is so evident. What is needed? Axé.

1/ That AAUP grant report. Evans’ flight was $628 and his hotel was $349. We had planned on $943 and spent $977. That is what I think it was. I need to make this grant report. 2/ These headaches. I think they are repressed anger, frustration, lack of support, and also ANTI-SUPPORT, and from not … More More things

At what point and how? Male perspective. Broken male perspective. Women don’t talk. Transparency, unity, strategic planning. We needed a dean who would NOT cover for an incompetent or disengaged chair, or collude with chairs on personal agendas. ¿Qué quieres hacer? Domeneck. Axé.

This is a draft/outline, and it will morph. This goes to the What is a Scholar posts. Axé. The way to start: every bad academic decision has had to do with looking out for metrics and following career advice. (Examples.)I had scholarly advice for myself that often went in another direction (do One way to … More On metrics, voice, and academic advice

Now that I am speaking so openly, and feeling much more like a living person than a voice from beyond the grave, I might as well continue. The really difficult thing about being in Spanish in my department has been that French meets, so French knows what it is doing and knows what the university … More Not on Facebook

Today I yelped in pain all day on Facebook and it seems to have helped. It all comes down to: I can’t allow myself to serve infirm entities, or sacrifice identity for them (my mother, BJA, to some extent ISB, RSA, Xica, other minor instances, but my mother, Barry, and I guess Terry Mayers, come … More Voice