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No excuses
I’m exhausted after a week of only eight meetings, but more than half were important meetings. I wish I had pithy thoughts, but I think the last pithy thought I had was on Tuesday, when I drafted a bunch of items for the union e-mail newsletter. Adieu, cruel week. No, it wasn’t cruel: just there […]
On eprints at Harvard and Full Monty open-access
I’m still trying to figure out the consequences of Harvard’s Arts and Science faculty voting last week to push open-access publication of faculty work. This is fundamentally different from the occasional individual boycott of subscription-based journals. Harvard’s faculty move is closer to Congress’s push for a mandate that all grant-funded articles etc. be accessible to […]
Steady work, if you can do it
Woke up at 5:20 this morning (the usual setting for weekdays), went back to bed for 10 minutes, then up to exercise and shower. Out to a cafe something after six, did some logistical editing tasks, write a disposition e-mail, answered a few e-mails, thought about the future, and now it’s time to head back […]
Mail inadequacy
I should not have left the checkbook at home: I’ve finished an article manuscript I’m pleased with, but I need to send in a small check for submission processing. So the manuscript copies will sit on my desk until tomorrow morning. Someone wanting to be admitted to USF must have found the faculty union website, […]
Huge conferences are inherently dysfunctional
This is not unique to the American Educational Research Association, but I was part of three sessions or papers submitted to AERA, one of which was accepted (par for the course), and I agreed to serve as chair of another, on condition that I not have to stay in the conference city (NYC) for the […]