Fall colloquium and workshop schedules

more info to come ...


Colloquia

11 SEPT  Jennifer Morton, City College of New York

25 SEPT  Hagop Sarkissian, Baruch College

30 OCT   Patti Lenard, University of Ottawa

  6 NOV  Candice Delmas, Northeastern University



Professional Development Workshops

10 SEPT Preparing for the Academic Job Market

22 OCT Preparing for the Non-Academic Job Market

19 NOV Constructing a Syllabus

fledgling goldfinch

fledgling goldfinch learned to fly this summer

what did you do?

yay for tenure

and job offers and contracts and stuff

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/court-holds-that-u-of-illinois-broke-contract-in-salaita-case/102881?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

about the STEM shortage

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/08/is-the-supposed-shortage-stem-shortage-a-myth-used-to-serve-tech-companies-labor-policies


(links to and from:)

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150802-column.html#page=1
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/08/there-was-never-stem-shortage.html

translating from the German

not quite SPEL-related, but ...

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/may/13/kafka-metamorphosis-translations

unfortunately, the most you can go back is 30 seconds

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/gmails-undo-send-option-can-help-end-email-embarrassment.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

I wonder if there are actually any statistics on this

Casey Perin, an associate professor of philosophy who directs the department’s graduate program, said 5+2 is especially appealing within the discipline because most philosophy dissertations are a series of articles, not book-length works.

source:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/23/uc-irvine-experiments-new-graduate-degree-and-postdoc-hybrid-program