tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2877294474907642947..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: New Book from Karen KelskyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86555934769236576752015-08-24T10:42:12.890-04:002015-08-24T10:42:12.890-04:00"I have seen search committees remarking late..."I have seen search committees remarking lately on the 'Kelskification' of the cover letters and application materials they receive."<br /><br />Really, now? I don't know any of the people involved, but it sounds like Schuman is a good friend of Kelski and made that line up to push the book. Granted, I'm in math and not at a tip-top elite university, but it's clear Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13860860003340219602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-90394091008020785312015-08-24T09:49:34.681-04:002015-08-24T09:49:34.681-04:00Schuman hates this site, right?
There are other w...Schuman hates this site, right?<br /><br />There are other writers like Kelsky who write about a part of academia that I don't live in and work in. I ignore them. I have the world I live and that's the one I have to figure out. I learn more about that here than anywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57309901934061912012015-08-23T20:58:06.606-04:002015-08-23T20:58:06.606-04:00Admittedly I haven't read the book (another th...Admittedly I haven't read the book (another thing I try not to let my students get away with, albeit with mixed success), but it strikes me that Kelsky may be trying to play to the crowds on both sides of the fence (as well as those sitting precariously on top of it), both pointing out the major problems with the current system, and showing people how to have the best chance (which still isn&Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-82502432900514420412015-08-23T18:49:49.751-04:002015-08-23T18:49:49.751-04:00I agree with you about Kelsky. Her advice is reall...I agree with you about Kelsky. Her advice is really geared to those shooting for the top tier research jobs. Then again, if I had followed any of it, I probably wouldn't be teaching 5/5 in the hinterlands. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635502687662919820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45349727374262248552015-08-23T17:43:21.798-04:002015-08-23T17:43:21.798-04:00Kelsky drives me nuts. Her 'advice' is use...Kelsky drives me nuts. Her 'advice' is useful to a small slice of privileged people looking for jobs that are equally privileged with colleagues who never questioned their own privileges. For the rest of us, it's absurdities and dead ends, the academic equivalent of the cliched satire of high-end restaurants with their overpriced spare absurdities in the place of food. <br /><br />Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.com