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Ivan Tribble fisked
It looks like there has been an explosion of blog entries about the “Ivan Tribble” blogging column. Most of it is justifiably critical. The best title thus far goes to The Trouble with Tribble, by Timothy Burke. Profgrrrrl notes that she wouldn’t want to work in Tribble’s department, because she’s already had colleagues like him […]
More foolish search committee stuff
I’ve slowly come to agree with remarks I’ve seen in various places that the anonymous columns in the Chronicle of Higher Education constitute an attractive nuisance for whining academics. The latest case in point is anonymous Ivan Tribble, who warns potential bloggers of the dangers posed by search committees who might read one’s blog and […]
On patriotism and principles
I’m an educational historian, and sometimes there are gems in my field that say something to the world at large. Today, it’s from the wartime court decision on the Pledge of Allegiance, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no […]
Bloody search committees
- What about an external review of assistant-professor candidate pools?
- What about using the target-of-opportunity program structure to expand the type of subfields included in a department?
Work horcruxes
By Sherman Dorn on July 19, 2005
This is going to be a fragmented week. Yesterday, I served part of my jury duty in the federal courthouse and finished an article review for a journal before I went to voir dire for a civil suit. I wasn’t chosen, so I’ll see if I need to head downtown again next Monday for another […]
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