« Students at U. of Southern California Develop Summer-Education Site | Home | Ghostwriting »
Interesting Reading
By admin | July 9, 2009
Interesting Reading
Thanks to Feminist Law Professors for pointing to a series of posts over at the Faculty Lounge on whether tenure should be abolished in law schools. The author of the series is Kimberly D. Krawiec, a guest blogger and Duke University law professor, who picks up where a recent piece in The Chronicle Review left off and explains why doing away with tenure “is unlikely to be the fix-all for institutional incompetence that many critics believe.” Check out all four of her posts:
‘We All Contribute In Our Own Ways’ Is Not a Valid Institutional Goal
Elsewhere on Feminist Law Professors, Ann M. Bartow, a University of South Carolina law professor, is appalled that women continue to be paid less than men when women outperform men in college and earn more degrees:
You’d think with more degrees and better grades, women would be earning substantially more than men. But in fact the opposite is true. According to this site, “The ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings for full-time workers was 79.9 in 2008, the third consecutive decline since the historical high of 81.0 in 2005.” So let me offer an explanation for why women enroll in colleges in higher numbers and earn higher grades once we are there: We have to. If we didn’t, the salary gap would grow even larger.
Meanwhile, over at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess …, Isis considers whether blogging is detrimental to a scientific career and concludes that it isn’t, provided you keep your priorities in order and your eye on the prize:
It’s phenomenal to contribute to the online discourse and to educate the public. I have a blast here and I do believe that there is value to the things I do here. However, when it comes to hiring and promotion and other career advancement-type things, unless your blog gets itself an impact factor overnight, its importance is trivial compared to the research dolla dolla bills y’all and the number of peer-reviewed publications you’ve amassed. It also means that if you are not achieving the career milestones you need to, your blogging can be viewed as an necessary distraction. That can hurt your career.
Finally, in a two-part series, Historiann shines a light on the disturbing frequency in which some (male and female) administrators interfere in the advancement of female faculty members and recounts her own run-in with the administrative patriarchy at her institution.
Topics: Education |