The Provost at UK has launched a "War on Attrition", designed to mobilize faculty around the goal of keeping economically marginal students in school during the recession. In spite of my general skepticism of Wars on X, I think that the goal is a worthy...
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This is a pretty awesome sort-of-job-market story for aspiring academics. Having sat on more hiring committees than I'd care to think about, I'm still amazed by the capacity of some.
Ah, the first day of class.... nothing like coming into the office, pouring yourself a cup of coffee, then noticing that you didn't quite finish the cup of coffee that.
Ahem.... I guess that I've always been mildly curious about how often this goes on. In eleven years of teaching, I have never been solicited once, nor (and you'll have to believe me on this) have I ever solicited a bribe of any variety. Yet...
While messing around with my computer this morning, I accidentally uninstalled Civilization IV, and I'm not sure where I put the installation disks.So now I'm wondering; should I panic, or.
I present Dr. Erik Loomis, Ph.D.
I don't often make it to the moving pictures these days, and I can't imagine this is going to alter that trend: Blowtorch Entertainment will next month begin filming on “Tenure,” which is about a college professor coming up for tenure (Luke Wilson) and facing...
I just sent off what I hope were the final revisions to an article that was graciously accepted for publication by a journal in my field. I wrote the initial.
Just finished my panel presentation, and I'm happy to say that I've achieved a new personal record in panel attendance. We had three presenters, no discussant, and two audience members.
Erik Loomis, like many of us, has been snubbed yet again by Jason Rantz, whose list of "America's [Ten] Most Dangerous College Courses" is dangerously incomplete. Saith Erik:I know I'm new and everything, but I hate America as much as these other professors (which is...
So while scanning the list of Academics for Ron Paul, I noticed that one of the signers had interviewed and been rejected for a job at my university several years.
Like Don Douglas, Robert Maranto, and so many other conservatives in academia, I too have suffered the heartbreak of discrimination in the job market. Prior to settling at the University.