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Life The tenure process can work out
She may have been doubting it at various points, but many of who have read her blog over the past few years never did: Profgrrrrl got tenure.
I did not sign up to be a firefighter
… so why do I feel like I’ve spent the last 5 hours playing the role? Oh, yeah: my university is back from spring break; the first department peer review committee meeting (annual evaluations) is tomorrow morning; I’m out of town most of next week. I want a week to work all by myself, and […]
Busy next week
March 24, 2008Teacher Attrition: Age-Specific Transition Rates (Sherman Dorn and Stephen Provasnik)In panel Sociological Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching2:15-3:45American Educational Research Association (SIG – Sociology of Education)New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Soho Complex, Soho Room, 7th Floor March 29, 2008Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices10:45-12:15Joint AFT/NEA Higher Education ConferenceHilton Washington ChairOra James Bouey, Health […]
Essayist as Puck?
If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber’d hereWhile these visions did appear.-Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V, i In trying to explain Why I Write These Columns, Stanley Fish argues that his goal as an essayist is to probe the logic of an issue, and that he […]
Eating okra at the carnivore’s table
I’m in Tallahassee this evening, giving up a day and a half to convince legislators that a proposal for a diminished university Board of Governors would be a bad idea. This evening, I asked the hotel clerk for a restaurant. The one she directed me to had one car in the parking lot: not a […]