Topic: Hiring, promotion, and tenure
Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission
The Last Professors: A eulogy to “the Last Good Job in America”
Frank Donoghue: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham University Press, 2008)
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Salary Spin Cycle – Does It Hold Water?
Mark your calendars! On Friday, April 1, it will be time for the annual disclosure of the Ontario public sector $100,000 club.
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Being feminist in the academy
Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries, eds., Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76 (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2008).
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Fear and loathing in the academy
Self-centeredness is the core of organizational politics in the university. The antidote for fear and loathing in the academy is a pedagogy of engagement, which means consideration for others.
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Performance Pressure
Are New Faculty At-Risk of “Letting Themselves Go” due to the Demands of their Profession?
READ MOREWhither Tenure?
Tenure as we know it today is a relatively recently phenomenon, dating from the 1960s. Since then, it periodically has come under […]
READ MORETenure and the Frights of Passage
I always thought I was good at dealing with gatekeepers. After all, my parents lived in a border town for 15 years, […]
READ MOREThe Real Case Against Tenure
A lot of nonsense is paraded as truth in arguments favouring getting rid of tenure. They are of the sort that show […]
READ MOREAre Tenured Faculty Slackers?
The word tenure, when used as a search term on ratemyprofessor.com, results in more than ratings for professors—it also showcases pervasive ideas […]
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