academia
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Choosing a College
By the way, a great measure of whether a school (or a department) is worth attending is what happens after graduation. If professors just forget about their students’ existence two minutes after the graduation ceremony, make no effort to place them in jobs, don’t forward information on employment opportunities, don’t speak to local employers about… Continue reading
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Who Needs to Get Rid of Older Academics?
Each day brings yet another completely bizarre and profoundly idiotic solution to the non-existent “crisis” in higher education. Instead of straining their brains and realizing that the calls for profound changes in our system of higher education are part of the anti-intellectual trend of peddlers of stupidity as a life goal, my fellow academics show just how servile they… Continue reading
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Academic Job Search: How to Write a Cover Letter?
I know that this post is not appearing in a very timely manner since people normally go on the job market in the Fall or, at the very latest, in winter. But I think it’s still a good idea to make this information available to those who are preparing to start looking for a job in academia… Continue reading
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The Innovative University by Christensen and Eyring: A Review
There is a lot of talk nowadays about the purported crisis within the system of higher education in North America. Every Tom, Dick and Henrietta think they have a recipe that will immediately cure the academia of all its ills. The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out by Christensen and… Continue reading
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>Consulting Services for Fellow Hispanists (And Other Colleagues in Humanities)
> When you finally get your PhD and find that first professorial position, you feel elated and nearly ecstatic. Finally, you will be able to become a scholar in your own right and transform your field of knowledge. Then you discover that your graduate program taught you how to be a great grad student but… Continue reading
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>The Real Reason Research Doesn’t Get Done
> Do you want to know the real reason why people end up doing a lot more teaching and service than research? I’ve been sitting here, struggling with two sentences from the first paragraph of my article since 9 am. And I still don’t like them. The temptation just to leave the whole thing aside… Continue reading
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>A Scientist Defends the Humanities at SUNY Albany
> I know the following letter is quite long, but it is definitely worth reading. Unlike the “spineless faculty” at SUNY Albany, Gregory Petsko, a scientist from Brandeis, has written a fantastic open letter to the so-called President of that so-called university. I wonder why the faculty of SUNY Albany haven’t written a hundred, two hundred,… Continue reading
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