This is not the academy you are looking for...
Wed, May 29 2019 11:02
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Have PhD...(source)George Station had posted this article titled "The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up" with the lead in of: Ellen Kirkpatrick has yearned for an academic career for many years. But 18 months after finally earning her doctorate, she is no longer sure she wants to remain in a sector defined by precarity, exploitation – and ‘quit lit’ George
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Should faculty be 12-month employees?
Fri, Aug 15 2014 15:43
| administration, higherEd, Management, pondering, tenure
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I guess today I will be taking off my "Instructional Designer" cap, and putting on my "Higher Education Administration" cap. My career in higher education goes back to the days of me being a work-study student, working for the department of Media Services, providing all those nice A/V equipment that professors use as part of their course. Since then I've had a variety of jobs with an ever
Tepid about Tenure
Sat, Jun 28 2014 13:44
| #altcred, 2cents, Badges, INSDSG619, INSDSG684, PhD, pondering, research, teaching, tenure, work
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I am back home, and with vacation behind me I guess it's time to get back to work. I've got the day-job for which I've already created a list of tasks to undertake; the teaching of my newly renumbered course INSDSG 684 (formerly 619) and the updates I want to make to the course materials as well as gearing up for my #altcred experiment, version 2.0; and finally the Great Big MOOC Book which I
PhD ponderings: Tenure...or not to Tenure
http://harvardpolitics.com/covers/higher-education/tenure-tune-up/I've been thinking about the concept of tenure these days, and the general concept or career prospects for the next 30 years for me. I've applied to a PhD program in our College of Management focusing on Organizations and Social Change. One of my old professors, who also gave me a recommendation, asked me what I wanted to
What's happening in the ivory tower?
I came across a blog post on InsideHigherEd recently about PhD programs and the disappearing tenure-track job market and how PhD programs should help their students to do something more than research and specialization in an area that has a focus on tenure-track professorial jobs (because as we all know adjunct instructor pay stinks).The main point of the author here is that PhD programs should include: