Adam Roberts commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
I think it's a hump. People don't usually draw attention to Superman's hunch, because its impolite; but it's there.
View ArticleTimothy Burke commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
I hope you can at least take consolation in the fact that Obama is a fan of Conan the Barbarian comics, which is truly one of the more awesome things in this season of awesome. (But the reports don't...
View ArticleSisyphus commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
I had thought it was Batman and Robin, running, capes flying old school, but now I just think it's a badly done silhouette. I hear ya about the jobs; mine are going poof too. At least I had already...
View ArticleAhistoricality commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
within five years, a decent number of less-selective small colleges are going to close their doors forever, Beloit looks like one of the first to go. and probably some of the tertiary branches of...
View ArticleJP commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
I don't think it's as dire as all that. Sometimes economic downturns drive the unemployed to school, and someone will need to teach them. We will have an administration that would be open to expanded...
View ArticleAhistoricality commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Thinking about it further, it occured to me that Superman is really the wrong superhero to call on in an economic crisis. He's useless; worse, he's useful at the kind of infrastructure building which...
View ArticleTimothy Burke commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Yes. The Bruce Wayne Chair at Gotham University! Heck, why not a whole department of experts who might, at some future date, be needed to provide a vigilante useful information. He can't get it all...
View ArticleRich Puchalsky commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
"Heck, why not a whole department of experts who might, at some future date, be needed to provide a vigilante useful information." But this brings up the usual sticking point -- why would experts in...
View ArticleAhistoricality commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
why would experts in literary studies really be needed? Many of Batman's adversaries have literary pretensions (which raises new possibilities for villains, to be sure) and there's a substantial...
View ArticleSEK commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
All funniness aside, I'm a sad puppy. Another job gone today. I'm this close to just waiting until the CC jobs open up after the MLA and going that route for a year or two. I wonder whether the stigma...
View ArticleSabalom Glitz commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Would you be able to provide the names of some of these schools, and the job specifics? I completely understand why you don't want to blog about in-progress searches that you've applied for, but if the...
View ArticleThe Constructivist commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
In NY, Governor Paterson's proposals to address current and projected deficits include an implicit threat to force layoffs if unions don't agree to holding off on the coming year's negotiated 3% raise,...
View ArticleKarl Steel commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Of course, Constructivist, I imagine Patterson could just raises tax on the rich a bit, cut the budget elsewhere (saying, by encouraging the repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws), and we (by we I mean...
View Articlealkau commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
First you gratuate from college, then you continue your education and get your Masters and you continue until you have your PhD. Now, you are unable to find work????? Yet, college education is on the...
View ArticleSisyphus commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
They're closing departments and laying off tenure-track (ie not already tenured) profs in a bunch of places somewhere in the Florida system, according to someone I just talked to. And a bunch of those...
View ArticleMike S commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Sisyphus, I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but within the last five years, I've known six lit phds, who came out of the UC system, that got tenure-track jobs at California CCs. So while the...
View ArticleAdam Kotsko commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Batman has already faced off against Deconstructo.
View ArticleMiriam commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
UC Irvine's English dept. actually has a solid track record of placing its Ph.Ds in community colleges.
View ArticleMary McKinney commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Does anyone know if post-doctoral fellowships are being canceled? Those little plums are going to be even more competitive... It seems to me that the only "solution" to the disappearing academic job...
View ArticleMary McKinney commented on 'SEK and the Case of the Disappearing Jobs'
Does anyone know if post-doctoral fellowships are being canceled? Those little plums are going to be even more competitive... It seems to me that the only "solution" to the disappearing academic job...
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