All of the cool kids on Twitter are posting their most widely shared articles and posts from the year. I struggle with that kind of self promotion so I will begin with some of the best from the blogs I read. Then, I’ll couch mine in there for good measure. Thanks to all of myRead More “The Blog Year in Review”
Yearly Archives: 2012
Walls and Boundaries: Academics and New Media
In a recent article with the Times Higher Education, journalist Chris Parr gives a thoughtful, respectful treatment on the debates around tweeting at academic conferences. I make a point of how respectful and thoughtful it is because, frankly, most of the debate around this issue has lacked both thought and respect. Your experience may vary.Read More “Walls and Boundaries: Academics and New Media”
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Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!
I have talked here before about how shocked I am that org theory so rarely engages ideas of inequality. I mean, we even call structural racism institutional racism. The word institutional is right there! Why so little theorizing about how institutions reproduce inequality or how they can be disrupted to, in turn, disrupt inequality? I’mRead More “Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!”
My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship
I’ve been asked frequently enough about my public work to know that there is a great deal of fear out there. People pull me aside at talks. They send me private messages on twitter. They email me from non .edu email addresses. I’ve written about that fear here before as it pertains to women. IRead More “My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship”
New Fancy Report On Job Outcomes for College Grads
A new report, summarized in a higher education paper, from McKinsey & Company on job outcomes for college graduates says that no one is doing a good job of slotting qualified workers into the labor market. My favorite part is this: Colleges aren’t entirely to blame, she said, for the fact that companies cannot findRead More “New Fancy Report On Job Outcomes for College Grads”
Marxism, Student Loan Debt, and Alienation of Labor
One of the ideas I’ve been working out on Twitter is a conflict analysis of student loan debt. I’m not sure when the idea originated but I distinctly remember asking if anyone could recommend a Marxist take on student loans and their pacifying effect on workers. Actually, it may have started with a conversation withRead More “Marxism, Student Loan Debt, and Alienation of Labor”
Power in the Classroom
I am not sure I say it often enough because research is, as a doctoral student, my number one job but I love teaching. I hate grading but I could teach all day long if my voice would hold up. I actually do not know that I could conduct research were I not teaching. TheRead More “Power in the Classroom”
Raging Against The Machine
It has taken me a little time to grasp the different writing conventions of academe. Writing for a conference presentation is not like writing for publication which can be totally different than writing for OpEds. I don’t have it mastered but I think I have determined that as much as academe is about scholarship itRead More “Raging Against The Machine”