In the last Week in Review, I highlighted The Faculty of the Future: Leaner, Meaner, More Innovative, Less Secure (Forum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/10/2009). You may remember, I've asked a business professor to comment on the piece. The faculty member graciously offered some time while writing a grant proposal, wrapping up a paper to be sent out (the 6th one of the summer), grading the exams and papers from an international class, summarizing of Business School IT/New Media innovation projects, handling … [Read more...] about Future faculty must “Show me the money”?
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Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009): Check out "virtual re-unification" about 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, i.e., the earliest surviving Christian Bible, at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Is it a The rival to the Bible (BBC News, Roger Bolton, October 6, 2008)? Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? (Robin … [Read more...] about Week in Review
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From Tom 'Angels & Demons' May Help Physicists Explain What Matters. Question: Do you agree with Mr. Izen? “Life presents just a couple of these opportunities when the public is paying attention, really paying attention to science, and in this case it's a movie which talks about antimatter and is set at CERN,” Mr. Izen says. The film is “a chance to tell our story.” A Marriage Made in History, a review of Eugene D. Genovese's Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage (ISI Books) for the Chronicle of Higher … [Read more...] about Week in Review
Chapter 1: Up to the Minute Publishing
Questions inspired by and related to You've Read the Headlines. Now, Quick, Read the Book (by Motoko Rich, NY Times, 3/29/2009, posted at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/books/30quic.html) Questions: How does this necessity/predisposition for more, deeper material ASAP affect popular writing by academics and academic publishing in cutting edge fields of technology? Are there particular topics, themes, fields which deserve (possibly even demand) a longer time frame for consideration during the … [Read more...] about Chapter 1: Up to the Minute Publishing
Where the tenure track jobs are. …
Some news related to Mike's earlier post Hard Times, Come Again No More. ... According to the Chronicle of Higher Education article For Some, Hard Times Make Hiring Easier: some institutions are going against the grain of the poor economy and appointing new professors. This decision has given those campuses an edge, yielding top-quality candidates who might not have been within reach in a more-competitive job market. -- by Robin Wilson, from the issue dated March 13, 2009. Of course, the competition is high at these … [Read more...] about Where the tenure track jobs are. …