Blogging is a lot like teaching. You start with one project, and then you add another and another, until you're juggling one more topic than you can track, and you hope that whoever is watching is enjoying the show, or at least paying attention. Along...
Negotiating the Paradox: Adjuncts & Writing
Slipping Down the Knowledge Funnel I recently read Roger Martin's 2009 book The Design of Business. It's a lovely book, and I recommend it highly for anyone interested in.
Perhaps I should better call this, how not to write productively. I'm about to air my own dirty laundry, in the service of learning, blogging, and honesty. I'll be sending.
If you're an adjunct, scrambling to make ends meet, how do you find time to write? Well, if you look Jill Carroll's advice on time management for adjuncts in The Chronicle from 2001 , you'll see all kinds of solid tips…and no mention of writing. Well, that's...
AA 52 More Perspectives I'd like to continue last week's process of breaking out of my own habitual limits by seeing the topic of adjuncts and writing from other.
Did anyone else waste their youth? I mean, does anyone else remember Mad Magazine's Spy vs. Spy cartoons? Created by Antonio Prohias, these cartoons starred two sharp featured caricatures of.
I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You see, I'd emailed Elizabeth Strout, whose complex and often lovely novel in stories Olive Kitteridge. (If you haven't read Olive Kitteridge, I highly suggest it. There's...
Scholars on the tenure-track have contextual support to write and publish. In the best positions, this takes the form of course release time and internal grants to fund sabbaticals, research.
As we all try to make sense of the state of adjunct faculty, and try to write, it is easy to get caught up in the immediate: to focus on.
As I noted last week, many schools don't have a strong sense that adjuncts write. (Okay, that's putting it mildly…) As a result, they don't provide much funding for conference attendance. Actually, that too is putting it mildly. Many schools provide no funds at all...