The AFT and organizational politics
There’s been various bits of commentary (e.g., Andrew Rotherham on Mike Antonucci’s analysis and filtered excerpts of a consultant report that focused on AFT headquarters staff. The most (potentially) explosive comment quoted by Antonucci: I have heard bold, outright lies told to large audiences.
Academics on notice
Look who’s on notice with Stephen Colbert: (Yes, you can generate your own “on notice” board. Fred Block? Nice guy. Doesn’t deserve to be on notice at all.)
Performative masculinity, or not, in academe
By Sherman Dorn on August 13, 2006
I’m not like Timothy Burke or even Michael Bérubé in the whole performativity of gender in academe thing, or as the case may be, performative masculinity in extracurricular activities through using chainsaws or at least renting them out in a chivalrous gesture before giving up and calling the tree folks (and here I mean the […]
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