An evolving post. Toward my post on choosing academic jobs, this is a post on the penchant for scolding in academic culture.

19/08/2012

This post started out as a comment on this one; the original comment is now in that comments thread where it was intended to be in the first place. This post also follows this one, which follows on a CHE article to which I do not wish to relink. I will link to a useful … More An evolving post. Toward my post on choosing academic jobs, this is a post on the penchant for scolding in academic culture.

Yolanda Estrada

18/08/2012

“Tiene sabor” on WWOZ-90.7 FM is one of the best radio shows, and it offers de la musique pour le weekend. I always mean to stream it in Maringouin more often than I do, but I like hearing it best in New Orleans. I think it was Henry Fiol who so impressed me today, but … More Yolanda Estrada

Wayne State University

18/08/2012

The proposed contract would allow the administration to remove faculty in cases of “the substantial curtailment or discontinuance of a program which removes any reasonable opportunity for using a faculty member’s services,” a “failure to meet professional responsibilities,” a “failure to perform academic assignments competently,” and a “financially based reduction in force.” Read the entire … More Wayne State University

John White

18/08/2012

Peter Reichard, projects manager at the Bureau of Governmental Research, argued that even with a more stringent approval process, private schools won’t be held to quite the same bar as public schools. Public schools can technically accept vouchers from students looking to transfer, he pointed, out, but only if they earn an A or a … More John White

On believing in it

16/08/2012

I was going to use the phrase “on putting your heart into it” but it struck me that believing in it, if perhaps less accurate in certain ways, had the advantage of minimizing the Scouts leader tone. This is another post I do not have time to write today but it is about enthusiasm, actually … More On believing in it

On choosing a job

16/08/2012

The Chronicle now says we should “embrace our inner North Dakotan” and I disagree with most of the old, tired platitudes they reiterate in their article. But then, I am apparently unusual in that I know what I want and what I want, I want for realistic reasons, not for merely conformist reasons or prestige, … More On choosing a job

In which I experience life as I did in graduate school and early assistant professordom.

15/08/2012

It again seems to me that work is easier to do than the other things one does in life, and that of work activities, the easiest is research. In graduate school the easiest research activity was writing, but at the moment I find it to be reading. Reading has become easier because I know more, … More In which I experience life as I did in graduate school and early assistant professordom.