Theoria

Anyone who has spent more than five minutes on a university campus has noticed the ballooning levels of administrative overhead: there is ceaseless and endless money for new administrators administrating stuff that you–say someone who studied at the school for six years and has taught there for the same length of time–have never heard of [...]

A few weeks ago, the report of the committee that oversees academic integrity investigations was submitted to the Senate. I’ve since lost the link to the report, but it doesn’t really matter. Of the 54 cases of plagiarism in the Faculty of Public Affairs, I personally reported 6 of them, which accounts for 11.1% of [...]

I complain a lot about my students, but sometimes they do make me proud. Marking essays this weekend from my first year seminar (i.e., seventeen and eighteen year olds), a student–a boy–rightly complained that the course reading list did not include perspectives on power and violence from women or about women. He is absolutely correct. [...]

Despite its exceptionally low-pay relative to qualifications, teaching isn’t that bad as far as jobs go: for the most part, I can choose the courses I want to teach, I can choose the topics I want to cover, I can choose the readings and assignments, and I can choose how to conduct the classroom. Few [...]