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Black Friday, rambling emails, and the uses of deviance credits
The recent Onion piece about the (fictional) 75,000-word email from Barack Obama hit the target in several ways. First, it apparently fooled Fox News and a number of Fox website readers who thought it was real. Second, when this parody was attributed to the professorial president (and remember that like the majority of faculty in the […]
Faculty jobs–yes, even this year
My college is not searching for a huge number of faculty, just three. But if you are interested in a tenure-track position in school psychology, educational measurement (I think the title of the position is "quantitative analysis"), and instructional technology, apply in the next several weeks.
On heterodox teaching decisions
Tim Burke's blog entry "Providing the Bricks, Not the Building" is a little obscure, but one piece of it makes me wonder about academic parochialism. Apparently a few of Burke's colleagues at Swarthmore feel it is inappropriate for a social historian to bring literature from anthropology, cultural studies, etc., into a history class at a liberal-arts […]
Damnit, I missed another enemies list!
Apparently Fenwick English published an "enemies list" in the Fall 2010 UCEA Review (the article starts on p. 13), something listed "enemy" Rick Hess properly ridiculed, and then ridiculed again with a longer explanation of why enemies lists are fundamentally foolish. It's been a busy 10 days or I'd have gotten around to this earlier, because this […]
Matt Bai’s instant-cliche machine
There's something that seems remarkably treacly about Matt Bai's instant punditry on the heels of the Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives: "If there is a lesson in all this for both parties, perhaps it’s that merely piling up votes on Election Day doesn’t confer on you a mandate for any ambitious agenda." Okay, Mr. […]