BY HOLLY HASSEL, KIRSTI COLE, AND JOANNE BAIRD GIORDANO Two recently published pieces purport to offer advice to academics about how to be successful in the profession. Jason Brennan, commenting on his new book, Good Work If You Can Get It, argued in a May 2020 interview, “For one, most service work is not worth…
BY AFSHAN JAFAR, SIMON FELDMAN, AND JOAN C. CHRISLER In the latest issue of Academe, we write about the importance of participating in academic governance, especially on small campuses. Our article, Hang Together or Hang Separately, lays out some of the obstacles to participation in governance and argues for the need to overcome them. Here,…
BY ANGELA MAE KUPENDA This is a guest post by Angela Mae Kupenda, a professor at the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Jackson State University in Mississippi and holds a master’s degree from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Kupenda finished…
The November-December issue of Academe looks at faculty service. It is perhaps the most ambiguous of the traditional triad along with teaching and research, and the articles in this issue seek to describe the different ways that faculty conceive of service, and the different ways that service is (or is not) recognized. Read the issue…
The November-December issue of Academe looks at faculty service. It is perhaps the most ambiguous of the traditional triad along with teaching and research, and the articles in this issue seek to describe the different ways that faculty conceive of service, and the different ways that service is (or is not) recognized. Read the issue…