#Tenured

Fabio Ghironi

FabioGhironi

Alberto Alesina had received his PhD from Harvard in 1986. I was 19, a freshman in Bocconi’s program in Economic and Social Sciences. 1/10 It was a small program—140 freshmen,

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

AsheeshKSi

Ok, #AcademicTwitter, I was asked: what can tenured faculty do to help fix this crisis? Non-exhaustive list of suggestions (plz add): 1. Recognize that you are a worker in a

Rediet Abebe ረድኤት አበበ

red_abebe

I appreciate that we're having long-overdue convos about work-life balance in academia, but I find some of the conversations pretty alienating. As a student, I worked... more than forty hours.

Robert Kelchen

rkelchen

For the first time in more than a decade, I didn't put in proposals to any fall conferences. The last 14 months have been crazy and I need to finish

Dr. Emily Friedman

friede

I repeat: until there’s a vaccine or other definitive solution, we’re in an emergency that lands very differently on different people. If you *choose* to do a conference, CFP, job

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) This is good and informative. I want to add something about a component of what this reporting reveals, which is the view that tenured faculty don't know or care

🔪SúperStabby🔪

SuperAndrea

All these “economics” experts know how to do is destroy the economy while calling the victims of #AB5 trolls. It’s easy to wag your finger from your tenured, union protected

🌷🤡💋🌷🤡💋Prof. Grace Lavery💋🤡🌷💋🤡🌷

graceelavery

In my early days on the tenure track, I was “asked” to teach classes in children’s lit, nineteenth century british lit, and a cross-time-and-space intro to drama. (“Asked” bc if

Academics Write

academicswrite

Beliefs in academia that need to die.... Go! OK. I'll start. That perfecting grammar will lead to automatic clarity in writing. That having tenure position is the only way to

Bryan R. Early

B_R_Early

Senior faculty SHOULD NOT bully grad students. The best advice I can give to grad students is to avoid jerks & focus on cultivating positive relationships with peers and senior

Allison Palumbo

Allison_Palumbo

I don’t post much here these days. Stretched too thin. But I have to speak up because I’m reading too many arguments about how tenure makes faculty jobs easy. I

John is dis((so)?|tan)ci(?(?=(?(2)|(?!)))(ati)|)ng

jdmar3

Why not?https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1248338110183878658 I mean, seriously. Tenured, well-resourced academics can't seem to handle literally anything these days related advancing science and human knowledge (particularly in times of crisi

Andrew Feinberg

AndrewFeinberg

INBOX: @realDonaldTrump has signed an executive order which removes a civil service protections from a large swath of positions "of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character" that don't

kritikaldesi

kritikaldesi

Academics really need to pay attention to what's happening with regards to international students right now. My experience as an F-1 student was that *almost nobody* who's also not an

Clara Joy Gibson

dis_comrade

Me looking at the opinions page of @IVEstate seeing insightful articles while @FenwickReview is publishing four page interviews with the bishop of worcester where he whines about how people got

Anne Helen Petersen

annehelen

The Provost's Message to the University of Kansas re: COVID bringing students back to campus for in-person instruction is just jaw-dropping. These documents need to be collected & preserved. "It