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Annual leave, furloughs, and the academic speed-up
This Friday I will be taking my first vacation day as a faculty member ever, in a little over 15 years at USF. Nine-month faculty do not get annual leave, and it is only with the shift in August to a 12-month position (as chair) that I started to accrue annual leave. ((Nine-month faculty do […]
My dangerous colleagues in anthropology
My eternal thanks go to Florida Governor Rick Scott, without whom I would never have known that the 0.8% of Florida state university system graduates who major in anthropology ((In the last 10 years reported, through 2009-2010, there were 446,733 BAs awarded by all SUS institutions, of whom 3,395 or 0.8% majored in anthropology. Source: […]
Writing History in the Digital Age: Open Review
If you are interested in commenting on a born-digital edited volume about historical scholarship while it is in progress, please head over to Writing History in the Digital Age (opens new window), to which I have contributed an essay. Today begins an open review period that will last through mid-November. Below is the open invitation from […]
You have unlocked the Cynicism Achievement and earned the Jejune badge!
I have watched the discussion of the Mozilla Open Badges project and this year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition‘s badges competition with some interest and a little skepticism about this and other proposed fragmented “gamification” of higher education. It turns out the Digital Campus podcast crew are even more skeptical. I forget who on this […]
The family stretch, and a question
For the first time in a number of years, I found myself the caretaker for a sick family member this weekend and early this week. Our children are 16 and 19, so they’ve been out of the catch-every-cold years for almost a decade, and for the most part they have been independent even when sick […]