The recent attempts by conservative groups to use open access laws like FOIA to do blanket searches for emails of professors they deem liberal is a bald attempt to intimidate academics, whom many conservatives see as liberal and therefore enemies. This practice came to light most recently after William Cronon brought to light the actions . . . → Read More: Privacy and Professionalism II: Academic Freedom
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In this day, privacy seems to be a thing of the past. Employees are expected to have no private life, and if an employer discovers one, he reserves the right to fire the employee. Incidents of disciplinary action from social media and other online activity abound. Schools discipline students for posting pictures of drinking on . . . → Read More: Privacy and Professionalism, Part I According to WordPress this will be my 300th post.1 Considering that I have been doing this since May 2004, that’s not really a lot. About 4 posts/month. Many blogs reach 300 in less than a year. I am not really that concerned about volume, though. Sure, there have been times I thought I should blog . . . → Read More: Reflections at 300 I was looking through the archives of this blog, and I found a post from four years ago entitled “Why?” in which I ask grad students, current and former, why they came to grad school and whether they still think it was worth it. A healthy discussion followed. I would like to re-ask the question . . . → Read More: Why revisited The title should probably read “How I survived my dissertation defense,” because each project is different, each committee is different, and, therefore each defense is different. Some of the advice below is from people who advised me before I defended last week, and some are from my observations once it was all over. Depending on . . . → Read More: 10 tips for surviving a dissertation defense Everyone is talking about Brian Croxall’s provocative MLA paper right now, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon. Go read the paper, if you haven’t already, but here’s a quick summary: Brian couldn’t go to MLA because he had no job interviews there and couldn’t afford the cost of attending, so he had . . . → Read More: Oh, the Humanities! U of M press is going all digital for monographs. The comments on this article indicate, predictably, that some people think it’s a great idea and others think it’s the end of the publishing world as we know it. I am in favor of digital publication, if it means that books will be cheaper and/or . . . → Read More: Michigan going digital I don’t know if just the blogs and sites I read, or if there really is a strong movement toward open-access, online journals. IHE had an article a few days ago about a paper journal that has gone online. The article says that the site has had 20,000 visitors vs hundreds of subscribers, but I . . . → Read More: Open Access |
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