1/ All institutions need more tenure track hires. That doesn’t mean everyone has to emphasize research to the exclusion of everything else; it means everyone deserves to be on some form of tenure track. 2/ If you have your NTT people on FTE, with benefits, pensions, offices, telephones, and representation in shared governance, that is … More An argument I will not have again
Clearly, I worked too hard too late yesterday. I knew I was exhausting myself, and I am exhausted. This morning I have lolled about, reading news and e-mail. Today I will make three phone calls and work out, and work for fifteen minutes. This should put me in shape again. Axé.
After sleeping late and reading news, I worked on travel plans for a conference and wrote 150 words of a proposal. I wrote two letters that needed writing, and I will make two phone calls and work out tonight. Update: what I really did was add 580 words to the proposal and hit submit. Moral … More And so
I’d like to read this McGuigan book, but I do not want to buy it, and we do not have it, and the next university only has it in e-format, and only for its own faculty and students, so the following university is the place. Note that that university is also the richest. Don’t let … More Neoliberal culture
Clarissa is posting on Wendy Brown who, as we know, is a major critic of the privatization of the University of California as well as one who shows what neoliberal values have done to everything. Newfield, and my colleagues, want to reclaim the idea of the public good, and the public for that matter, and … More After neoliberalism?
These keywords and key phrases: violation of academic freedom, discrimination, and inadequate consideration of case. Axé.
If you have to teach grammar, here is how you peg concepts to popular song lyrics. They have already figured out which song works best for what. Axé.
They will send me a desk copy! Axé.
…at the library, Literary Bondage and those back pages of Poets & Writers, where they list bilingual presses. There is another book that turned out to be there and that I wanted to get, and I have lost my piece of paper. C’était quoi? Something tempting and new that I was going to order from … More Ne pas oublier
An antidote to the professor watch list. Axé.
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