By Sherman Dorn on October 9, 2006
New Kid on the Hallway’s entry today on watching the (rebroadcast) Eyes on the Prize has me focusing on two thoughts: Wow. This really is evidence of how long the series has been unavailable to too many people. NK’s comments show how much education really is a matter of making sure that information and perspectives […]
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By Sherman Dorn on October 9, 2006
To new scholars hired into academic jobs: Remember that your colleagues are unreliable narrators. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily vicious, mean, backstabbing folks (and I hope you don’t run into those types, because they unfortunately exist). I mean that people to whom you look for advice on institutional morays have their own sets […]
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Narrators of academic and political life
By Sherman Dorn on October 9, 2006
To new scholars hired into academic jobs: Remember that your colleagues are unreliable narrators. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily vicious, mean, backstabbing folks (and I hope you don’t run into those types, because they unfortunately exist). I mean that people to whom you look for advice on institutional morays have their own sets […]
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