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Unsettled schools, two centuries ago and now
I could get used to days like this again, where I spend most of the day doing nothing but reading what I choose, in this case two books. My undergraduate papers are due next week, and so next weekend I will be swamped with other stuff, but I had the chance to finish two books […]
Watch, but ridicule
A blog entry today on the Inside Higher Ed site helped me realize what's bugging me about the conversations around Bill Cronon and the Wisconsin GOP's crass efforts to intimidate faculty: [Another reason to be skittish about working in public higher ed is] the open records request in Wisconsin for Bill Cronon's emails. Not that, […]
Bill Cronon: a quick note
Like thousands of other historians, I have admired Bill Cronon's scholarship for years and think the Wisconsin GOP was nuts to go after his emails through a public-records request of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the epitome of the solid scholar and far from the evangelizing radical I bet the Wisconsin GOP was hoping […]
Worklife after union chapter leadership
At 12:01 am on Friday, I became the immediate ex-president of the USF chapter of our faculty union, the United Faculty of Florida. My best wishes go to my successor Paul Terry, who works on the USF Polytechnic campus and (I believe) is the first chapter president from a non-Tampa campus at USF. (The faculty […]
Union elections
Tomorrow is vote-counting for our chapter of the United Faculty of Florida. EDU 214 on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, beginning at noon, if you want to come watch in person. I am not on the ballot for chapter officers because I agreed to become department chair starting in August, and […]