Category Archives: Tenure
Course evaluations: The more, the merrier
This post at ProfHacker reminded me to write about something I’m trying this semester in my calculus classes (the only freshman-level class I have right now). I’m giving not one but four course evaluations during the semester. I’ve given midterm … Continue reading
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Working and having a life, redux
Image via Wikipedia The Chronicle has an article on a Harvard survey of Gen-X professors and their attitudes toward the balance of work and the rest of life. The professors surveyed indicate that they want to be successul in their … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Higher ed, Life in academia, Tenure, Vocation
Must the tenure process really be like this?
Like a lot of people in higher ed, I’ve been following Friday’s deadly shooting at the University of Alabama-Hunstville. (Click the link for background in case you missed the story. I have no idea how much press it is or … Continue reading
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The blogging VPAA?
I was thinking over the session coming up at Blog Indiana by John Oak Dalton titled “Chancellor 2.0″ which promises to address “existing and emerging obstacles of CEO-grade context” [sic? Was that supposed to be "content"?] for Twitter. In other … Continue reading
Filed under Academic freedom, Blogging, Higher ed, Life in academia, Social software, Technology, Tenure, Twitter, Web 2.0
Linkages, 29 December
The perils of graphing, from xkcd. Erin at Critical Mass claims that tenure is untenable and has already been phased out without our even knowing it. Good discussion in the comments. The New York state comptroller says that New York … Continue reading
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Four questions to ask about tenure
Over at the Young Mathematicians’ Network, I have an article today on four revealing questions that young faculty should ask about tenure. Since you have to have an account to post comments at the YMN web site, and since some … Continue reading
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Monday GTD moment: Scholarship and GTD
This is the third installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Things Done and how it applies in an academic setting. If you’re unfamiliar with GTD, here’s a good overview, and make sure … Continue reading
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Tenure vs. contracts
I’m on the Promotion and Tenure Committee here, and my two colleagues and I on the committee just finished the first of two solid weeks of reviewing evaluation portfolios of all the faculty up for promotion, tenure, and annual review. … Continue reading
Filed under Academic freedom, Education, Higher ed, Life in academia, Tenure
Truth and consequences for Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill has been fired: More than two and a half years after Ward Churchill’s writings on 9/11 set off a furor, and more than a year after a faculty panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder found him … Continue reading
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Bias and thought policing on all sides
You might come away from yesterday’s postings (here and here) thinking that real bias in academia only occurs from Left to Right. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sadly, the impulse to censor and police the thoughts of professors … Continue reading
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