I got the reports on my book back, and the editor says he will be recommending it for publication at the next board meeting. One of the reports is glowing, the other is less so, but both are super helpful. They give reading recommendations and stuff.
Now, the only way I’m not getting published is if my response to the readers stinks or if there are budget limitations.
I’m very proud of myself, folks. The book was written while I was pregnant and either completely exhausted and nauseous in early pregnancy or traveling to the hospital 3 times a week and managing a raging diabetes. Plus, I was writing and submitting 3 articles on entirely different subjects at the same time. (They have all been accepted, by the way.)
Oh, I’m good. Oh, I’m very good.
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Congratulations!!!
It looks like you are kicking some serious professional butt — do you think you might be interested in moving schools? If that’s what you are interested in, it seems like it would be a good time this year or next, with the second book and all these articles out.
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Thank you!
Yes, I’m going on the market. I decided after my trip to Oxford was not funded. I don’t feel appreciated, and as a result I lose interest.
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I thought they finally agreed. Did they back out at the last minute?
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No, I never got a dime and nobody even talked to me about it or expressed any regret. In the meanwhile, other people got much more expensive vacation trips funded 100%.
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Kurdistan is awesome.
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And those kebabs! 🍡🍖🍗🍢
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Congratulations. You are kicking ass and taking names!
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Thank you. :-))) And this is the person whose trip to Oxford her stupid college refused to fund.
OK, I need to get over this.
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Many decades in the future, you will quietly mutter “Oxfooooorrrrd…” as a snowglobe gently slips from your fingers and tumbles down the stairs before smashing.
Since the internet will have long since disappeared in favor of phones installed in people’s brains, no one will ever know what you meant…. Though an academic conference or two will be held on the subject.
(if that’s too opaque, look up the movie Citizen Kane)
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Yes, I do know how to hold on to a grudge. I loved this university passionately but that one thing just switched it all off for me.
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My department has had zero dollars allocated for faculty travel the past three years. 😦
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If nobody got funding, I’d be ok with that. But they honored completely trivial requests from people who will never publish anything and didn’t give me a dime. If there’s no money, I can accept that. But this preferential treatment- that I don’t accept.
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Yes, at least we’re all suffering together on that front.
Though there seems to be plenty of money for other things. We just added yet another Associate Dean and there are now so many full time advising staff that they don’t fit into the fancy new advising center they built for them just a few years ago. The new plan is to put full-time advisers into departmental offices of the larger departments to serve the students in those departments.
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Oh yes, same here. There is such an obsession with expanding the advising staff that people are being literally bussed in from Utah to work as advisers. It’s insane.
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Maybe I’m naive, but I thought advisors gave you actual academic advice, such as “The program doesn’t require this course, but you should really think about taking this language/specialty if you want to go to grad school” or “if you want to do this program/ internship you need to talk to these people starting now”, not “this is how you look up this thing in the computer/handbook”.
Here the advisers don’t know the tail from the head and it takes five different people to answer one question because their knowledge is so siloed.
And why Utah of all places?
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Congratulations…
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Thank you!
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My god… you are incredible. I can’t even manage to get one book written in five years at this incredibly stupid job. Sigh. You should apply for top-tier colleges. One of my blog readers is from Columbia, and she said that they have to write two books for tenure. I think you’d probably qualify. 🙂
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You work in ridiculously bad conditions, though. The death-chamber office that you can’t even get comped is simply the limit. It’s like they are trying to cripple the faculty in a literal sense. Truly shameful.
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Congrats on the glowing reports from your editor!
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Thank you! The suggestions are good, too.
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Congratulations!
Really curious to read this book now. 🙂
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Congratulations Clarissa!!! 🙂
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“Maybe I’m naive, but I thought advisors gave you actual academic advice”
Two words: “Potemkin universities”
Many public universities are turning into jobs programs and not a place to increase the social capital of students and staff (academic, administrative and support).
Therefore you don’t need research (so you give researchers the short end of the stick until they go away and stop bothering you) You need adjunct and adunct-in-spirit faculty and tons and tons and tons of support staff to hoodwink students into thinking that they’re getting an education (rather than simply being kept off the unemployment rolls as long as possible).
I really think most people are unconscious about what’s going on but the collective (and nudged) decisions being made by everyone is pushing things into that direction.
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