tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post90959789246164384..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Early Thirsty: A Penny at the MLA?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75025506935689287332013-01-03T15:44:46.401-05:002013-01-03T15:44:46.401-05:00"So why *not* consider people with non-academ..."So why *not* consider people with non-academic experience for the same positions? As long as they have *some* teaching experience, and a solid reserach record, I don't understand why their experience should be brushed aside."<br /><br />Maybe some search-committees have this as an explicit policy, but even if they don't, even in a field as specific as my own (Miniature Albino DrDoctorDrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160070320563319938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36972823941604555242013-01-03T09:47:39.111-05:002013-01-03T09:47:39.111-05:00I'm going to the equivalent conference in my f...I'm going to the equivalent conference in my field. There is so far as I know no equivalent movement there; but I am not a member of my field's organization, because it costs too bloody much, so I'm not getting the emails. We have all the same problems though, for sure. I have a lot of sympathy with PhDs who have been thrown out of the market because they graduated in the wrong yearMerely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53226446603274907982013-01-02T18:48:50.698-05:002013-01-02T18:48:50.698-05:00Hmm. I see PhDs waltz into TT teaching positions a...Hmm. I see PhDs waltz into TT teaching positions all the time without extensive teaching experience. Many programs in my field require people to teach only four quarters throughout their entire graduate careers. These people still manage to get teaching positions. At least in my field, teaching experience does not seem to be valued heavily. As long as you've done some, you're in the same Gone Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17545285786616979495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24710994552117094362013-01-02T17:42:04.966-05:002013-01-02T17:42:04.966-05:00I have plenty of respect for non-academic work exp...I have plenty of respect for non-academic work experience. But it's nowhere near as important as university experience teaching and researching. I think it's certainly relevant with regard to committee work. Do you think when considering a candidate for a teaching job, that it's reasonable to equate five years of work in the private sector, and little teaching and research StellafromSparksburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17584701718285662953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19860878095007678662013-01-02T13:18:32.135-05:002013-01-02T13:18:32.135-05:00Hmm, your number four is ... interesting.
I'...Hmm, your number four is ... interesting. <br /><br />I've never come in contact with a professor who found my non-academic work experience impressive. They never worked themselves outside of academia--so how could they understand what it takes to be successful in non-academic endeavors? I did a lot of interesting, ambitious things outside of grad school, but I leave them off my CV because I&Gone Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17545285786616979495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54630391851360194922013-01-01T23:52:18.638-05:002013-01-01T23:52:18.638-05:00Strangely enough, my panel was posted on the "...Strangely enough, my panel was posted on the "Occupy MLA Guide" which directs occupy MLA'ers which panels to best invest their "temporal capital." I say strangely, because my presentation is pretty myopically invesested in the literary (i. e. seems not to be directly related to the occupy manifesto). However, I am merely a graduate student and am grateful for the publicityeumopolushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06273497453988508291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53713387526482011562013-01-01T19:52:02.262-05:002013-01-01T19:52:02.262-05:00I was mistaken. There are differential fees for di...I was mistaken. There are differential fees for different incomes; however, these fees do not adjust for cost of living. So, an adjunct making $30,000 in New York City pays the same as an adjunct in the Midwest. Still, it's expensive having to come up with membership dues + access to the Job Information List, if your graduate institution does not let you stay on the roster to use their accessMaybellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01470091893270064951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-63408564392528671272013-01-01T19:19:19.400-05:002013-01-01T19:19:19.400-05:00Everybody wants May `68, Prazske jaro, 1917, sort ...Everybody wants May `68, Prazske jaro, 1917, sort of thing to happen because America is stuck in a dead decade....maybe it will happen, or maybe OWS was our 1905 and we have to wait for the "real deal" to happen later.<br /><br />While we are hanging on, here's Kin-Dza-Dza:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U (part 1)<br /><br />And Chris Marker's "Grin Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81075252469640752632013-01-01T18:26:28.923-05:002013-01-01T18:26:28.923-05:00I think that charging unemployed members the regul...I think that charging unemployed members the regular membership fees and especially fees to access job listings is pretty cold hearted. I think the national chemistry organization, ACS, has a reduced set of fees for unemployed members but I'm not sure how they verify that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16739778966686435962013-01-01T15:41:47.374-05:002013-01-01T15:41:47.374-05:00I'm going to jump in to this discussion. While...I'm going to jump in to this discussion. While I don't agree with the entire Occupy MLA manifesto, I do believe there are some valid points.<br /><br />Of personal concern is the two tier system that is emerging in academia: those who land a TT job and those who adjunct. While I appreciate that TT jobs have more out-of-class responsibilities, I am also deeply concerned by the feminizationMaybellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01470091893270064951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78010748604201599202013-01-01T14:54:04.957-05:002013-01-01T14:54:04.957-05:00You want an interesting experience at the MLA? Fo...You want an interesting experience at the MLA? Fold up at dollar bill in your badge and proclaim that you are the 1%. That's what helps you create memories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68981597653109355152013-01-01T14:50:44.657-05:002013-01-01T14:50:44.657-05:00From your description, it seems that schools and f...From your description, it seems that schools and funding organizations should continue focusing on alt-ac regardless of what happens at the department level. If schools continue to pump out too many PhD students, they'll need more jobs than academia could provide. If academia cuts the number of grad programs, then current adjuncts and non-TT faculty will be looking for work outside of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30227381301908904202013-01-01T14:37:16.010-05:002013-01-01T14:37:16.010-05:00Very nice summary of alt-ac, Cassandra: accurate a...Very nice summary of alt-ac, Cassandra: accurate and concisely put despite the complexity of the issue. I also think you're right to see it as part of the realm of humanists, as most STEM fields have fairly clear, socially recognized opportunities to apply knowledge gained through grad degrees outside the confines of the academy. As for the humanities...we're working on it. (Slowly.)<br /Edna Expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11438002061912782295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19490596489894589512013-01-01T14:27:28.963-05:002013-01-01T14:27:28.963-05:00Academics are, by and large, cowards. No one with...Academics are, by and large, cowards. No one with anything to gain or lose will be sporting a penny. No one.<br /><br />My qualms with the manifesto are as follows:<br /><br />#2, The prioritizing of internal candidates should not be policy but should depend on the institution and the position. <br /><br />#3...well I'm sorry but the question of a "stale Ph.D." is relative. StellafromSparksburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17584701718285662953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-8290029791239011512013-01-01T13:45:50.426-05:002013-01-01T13:45:50.426-05:00Your post hits very close to home,Cassandra. I ju...Your post hits very close to home,Cassandra. I just joined a job board and sent out two applications for jobs that have nothing to do with academia that I can do as part time, telecommuting gigs. <br /><br />I feel I have to at least go through the motions, I signed contracts for the upcoming semester....but even if I don't get into Ph.D. school in the fall, I may just throw the whole damn Diana Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440600197695521805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28862967541953395702013-01-01T12:30:26.633-05:002013-01-01T12:30:26.633-05:00I won't be at MLA. I can only offer best wishe...I won't be at MLA. I can only offer best wishes to those who will be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11380855724506200722013-01-01T10:56:33.292-05:002013-01-01T10:56:33.292-05:00alt-ac, in my experience, refers to alternative ca...alt-ac, in my experience, refers to alternative careers for academics/people with Ph.D.s, perhaps especially but not exclusively careers in the digital humanities. Some involve full-time non-tenure-track non-teaching work within the academy; some involve work for mostly nonprofit/government entities outside the academy (libraries, historical societies, museums, archives, etc.). <br /><br />It'Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15108397101453911262013-01-01T10:45:33.043-05:002013-01-01T10:45:33.043-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20780181901637191182013-01-01T09:58:48.515-05:002013-01-01T09:58:48.515-05:00What is the alt-ac issue? I've never heard of...What is the alt-ac issue? I've never heard of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com