Archive for August 18th, 2010
Is A Response Even Worth Our Time
A Facebook friend messaged me to say “ACRLog needs to take this on”, in reference to this comment associated with a Slate piece on why tenure should be abolished. Andrew Sullivan who blogs for The Atlantic shared a few paragraphs from the Slate piece with his readers. It generated a fair number of comments in [...]
Posted: 18 August, 2010 in Idiocy.
Tags: andrew_sullivan, atlantic, tenure
Comments: 7
Just Around the Corner
It’s the middle of August, which means that the Fall semester is coming up fast. Posts about beginning the new academic year on the right foot are starting to pop up all over the higher ed blogosphere. Here’s a couple that have caught my eye recently: 1. Earlier this month Tenured Radical* encouraged us to [...]
Posted: 18 August, 2010 in Faculty, Higher Education, Just Thinking.
Tags: organization, stress, work-life balance
Comments: 1