Ezra:I grew up among academics. And I have never since met a class of people so contemptuous of teaching. You'd think they were being asked to chew mud.When in the course of making blanket statements based on what amount to personal anecdotes, Ezra should probably...
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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.
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 you poured for yourself on the last day of class in April. Anyway, here are...
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.
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.
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 (one of whom wandered in halfway through the panel). 4.5 beats the previous record of...
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.
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.