Opinion

I was in a late afternoon meeting last Friday with a group of the kind of folks who are likely to be in a late afternoon meeting on a Friday. I think we had a dean and three department chairs there as well as at least two program coordinators—folks, in other words, who do a good bit of service, or who have put in so much time doing service in the past that they are now doing it full-time as administrators. Everyone was breathing that kind of sigh...

By Libby Gruner

Those of us who have been, or are, in graduate school have come across this mantra: publish or perish. What is important about this phrase is not only the unrelenting pressure it puts on graduate students and early career faculty to publish, but the unspoken lack of emphasis it places on teaching

By Afshan Jafar

Reading Reamde (Kindle) and Ready Player One (Audible) simultaneously is somewhat of a surreal experience, as both novels feature massively...

By Joshua Kim

‘Flexibility’ is genuinely slippery concept, one that provides some sense of coherence with vagueness. It is also a concept that is a resource to be used in the pursuit of power. I’m most familiar with the concept of flexibility in relationship to the changing nature of production systems. There has been a long debate in Economic Geography, for example, about phenomena like ‘flexible specialization’ and ‘flexible accumulation’. These interrelated concepts have helped scholars and industry analysts make sense of how production systems are evolving to cope with increasingly levels of competitive pressure, the emergence of global value chains, new forms of territorial development, and so on.

By Kris Olds

Professors send a message with their attire, writes Nate Kreuter.

By Nate Kreuter

When experts advise academe to embrace a radical new future, they ignore what students really need and move us toward a faculty-free future, writes Laurence Musgrove.

By Scott Jaschik

A thoughtful correspondent wrote last week to express concern about what she perceived as a growing rift between faculty and...

By Dean Dad

Every year or two, I need to restore what passes for my sanity. When that need arises, I read. More...

By G. Rendell