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New media and academe
A few somewhat-related ideas floating in my head this afternoon: The persistent value of blogging. While many others assert a professional value of Twitter and LinkedIn, and I am sure they can be used in that way, I will stick to blogging: it’s public, it captures thoughts that require more than 140 characters, and I […]
The world is slowing, I’m speeding up, or I have acquired a few afterburner kits
I am now far less behind than I was in early December. The next EPAA article (to be published April 10) is in the can; I have another 5 in various post-acceptance stages, a bunch of decisions to be written up from my scribbles and reviewer comments, a revision ready to read, grad-student manuscripts in […]
Michael Crow and Bernie Machen up the yin-yang
Monday’s New York Times story on Arizona State University stole my point earlier this month about the expenses of public research universities and the tension between undergraduate teaching and the building of a research infrastructure. Either that, or I was stating the obvious (I think I was stating the obvious). The Times quoted the ASU […]
A letter from someone else’s Stu Dent
I generally don’t write about students I am currently teaching. I will occasionally write about events months or years later, but generally not in the same semester. But I have an e-mail this morning from someone else’s Stu Dent: Hi I am from England, currently studying a [type of] degree in [field]. For my last […]
Sick leave and pensions
I’m taking one of my rare sick days today, and while I don’t have that much stamina to concentrate for a long time, I’ll note just a few thoughts about debates over teacher pensions a la Chad Aldeman’s comments. First, the entire debate strikes me as largely unconscious of or compartmentalized from the larger context […]