Tag: academic labor
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Work-Life Balance
Times Higher Ed (THE) has released results from its 2022 Work-Life Balance survey.
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Potemkin U. (guest post)
“We are mired in inevitably betraying and ignoble practices, obliged to pay mindless obeisance to useless cant or to perform pantomimes of actually important…
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A Little Rough Data About Journal Refereeing in Philosophy
Is there a refereeing crisis in philosophy? There has been a fair amount of discussion about this over the past couple of months.
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A Public Database of Referee Service (guest post)
A few years ago, Neil Sinhababu, associate professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore, wrote about the “publication crisis” in academic philosophy…
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What Professors Do
With Winter Break coming, professors, you have some time—maybe a month or so—to kick back and just relax. And let’s not forget those three…
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Columbia Grad Students Striking, University Striking Back (updated)
Graduate students at Columbia University went on strike last month, for the second time this year, as they attempt to negotiate a labor contract…
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Letter Protesting Midwestern State University’s Treatment of Nathan Jun (updated)
There’s currently an effort underway to gather signatures for a letter in support of philosopher Nathan Jun, who resigned from his tenured professorship at…
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Analytic Philosophy, Inclusiveness, and the English Language
Philosophers are endorsing a set of principles “to address the structural inequality between native and non-native speakers [of English], and to provide as many…
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Philosophy Professor Resigns to Protest University’s COVID-19 Plan
Jeremy Fischer, who until yesterday was a tenured associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), resigned from his position…
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Children, Academia, and the Life of the Mind
“If children take time away from a habit of intellectual activity that is bad in itself, it’s hardly a real accusation against them.”
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Sounding the Alarm: 2021-2022 COVID Risks at Unprotected Colleges and Universities (guest post)
Some faculty will be teaching this fall at schools in areas with low vaccination rates, whose administrators cannot or will not require vaccinations, mask-wearing,…
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Sci-Hub & the Philosophy Grad Student “Pirate Queen”
You may know that Sci-Hub is a means by which to freely access academic research that normally requires a subscription or purchase. Did you…
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Junior Yearly Progress Reports in Pandemic Times
A junior faculty member has questions about the assessment of faculty on the tenure-track over the past year, particularly regarding how such faculty should,…
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How Should Departments Credit Faculty for Public Philosophy?
The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), will be considering a proposal about how to recognize the work its faculty…
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Examining the Future of Academic Events (guest post)
Following up on yesterday’s piece regarding online conferences, Heather Douglas, professor of philosophy at Michigan State University, in this guest post,* asks us to…
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Online Conferences: The New Default (guest post)
In the following guest post,* a group of scholars make the case that the online conferences, the recent prevalence of which has been spurred…
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Specialization, Technicality, and the Production of Philosophy
Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, as well as co-editor of the…
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New Leadership at European Society for Analytic Philosophy
The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) has a new president and a new steering committee.