tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post6051266387727297604..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: It's the Week before Classes...Leave Me Alone!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40749579907543532252013-01-11T19:56:47.683-05:002013-01-11T19:56:47.683-05:00Our Provost and Dean teach regularly, too (and the...Our Provost and Dean teach regularly, too (and the last president did very occasionally, I believe). But they're also both real professors (i.e. still-practicing researchers who started out in teaching/research/service TT jobs, and earned tenure, before moving into administration). They're by no means perfect, but at least they've got some idea of what regular faculty life is like.Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72538247343598663202013-01-11T17:54:51.965-05:002013-01-11T17:54:51.965-05:00The president of my undergrad alma mater teaches o...The president of my undergrad alma mater teaches one freshman honors seminar each year, a feat that I have always found impressive. And this is at a well-ranked private R1 university, not a SLAC.Curmudgeon in Traininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07524725236168917391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-89445361592628885782013-01-11T17:30:41.387-05:002013-01-11T17:30:41.387-05:00And in departments lucky enough to have searches t...And in departments lucky enough to have searches this year, faculty are busily scheduling, and in some cases hosting, candidates in between all of the above. <br /><br />Even those of us not on the tenure track are experiencing more and more of this (not to mention expectations for more and more elaborate course materials that simply cannot be created in the pre-semester time included in our Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26333782781785086172013-01-11T16:22:48.126-05:002013-01-11T16:22:48.126-05:00Preach It EC. A sabbatical now simply replaces al...Preach It EC. A sabbatical now simply replaces all the time they take from me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-46138103586915359582013-01-11T15:33:55.359-05:002013-01-11T15:33:55.359-05:00Many years ago, I worked at a government research ...Many years ago, I worked at a government research facility. One joke I heard there was a play on Descartes's famous saying: I meet, therefore I am.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-29949291692892239682013-01-11T15:08:14.198-05:002013-01-11T15:08:14.198-05:00Have you heard of "administration"? Desc...Have you heard of "administration"? Description can be found here:<br />http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/administ.htm<br /><br />I have just been through what you describe. I had 3 hopeful, hapless students appear in one of my classes. When I called the class to order, I asked anyone not in the class to leave. They said nothing. They remained standing. I addressed them directly... they Karen Ackoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01527412523732265688noreply@blogger.com