Category: John Protevi
-
This Slate article* about the recent Johns Hopkins plan** is symptomatic of a seriously — and unfortunately widespread — mistaken approach to the political economy of higher education, namely, a short-term and ahistorical focus on the TT section of the entire labor system, mislabeled as "the job market." Abstracting for the moment from the details of the…
-
Why? Well, because this post is about the Kansas Regents' decision to pass a new social media policy, which states that: the chief executive officer of a state university has the authority to suspend, dismiss or terminate any faculty or staff member who makes improper use of social media. Improper use means making a communication…
-
I like the result of the NYU graduate student unionization election (I would like to say, "obviously," but as too many profs use the "in principle I like unions, but …" line when it comes to grad student organizing I guess I can't). But I don't think the subhead of this column ("An important victory…
-
Both of these writing modes are essential skills for graduate students to master, but it’s hard to get them to even try the “teacher-development” mode, perhaps because it’s more difficult. (It’s especially important for continental philosophy students to master this, since they will very often be addressing non-CP experts when addressing professional colleagues.)
-
Quite a morning on Facebook. First, someone posted a link to this NDPR review, which prompted this reflection on my part: The choice of doing a review or not on Objectivism entails a bit of a double-bind: "sunlight is the best disinfectant" (or less obnoxiously, "let's let the marketplace of ideas* do its work") vs…
-
Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber responds to Jonathan Wolff and to Brian Leiter on the question of the combative style in philosophical discussion. Bertram: Sometimes combat might be the right stance, but seeing that as the default mode for philosophical discussion leads far too often to destructive Q&A sessions that aim at destroying the opponent and bolstering the amour…
-
The good news: NYU and the UAW have agreed to allow graduate teaching assistants to hold a union election. The "sigh" moments come in the first and last clauses here: Outside the South, graduate student unions are common in public higher education (where collective bargaining rights are determined at the state level), but have been…
-
Rebecca Jordan-Young and Cordelia Fine (to name folks working in neurofeminism who will most likely be familiar to New APPS readers) are among the co-authors of this open-access article, "Plasticity, Plasticity, Plasticity … and the rigid problem of sex." The article points out two disconnects. The first is the most obvious, the disconnect between contemporary…
New APPS 