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An inside look at the politics of academic careers
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Is the desire to retire from the fray stronger than the desire to prevail in it?
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The only thing you get when you enforce a political balance in hiring, teaching, or campus life, says Stanley Fish, is a politicized university.
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The controversy over Larry Summers's remarks is not about any particular issue, says Stanley Fish. It's about someone falling down on the job.
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For Stanley Fish, the evaluation of teaching by students amounts to a whole lot of machinery with a very small and dubious yield.
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What will succeed high theory and race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in academe? Religion, says Stanley Fish.
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Administrators work harder than faculty members, says Stanley Fish, and that's why they're paid more.
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All deans who are any good at it are obsessive compulsives, says Stanley Fish.
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Delivering the opening comments at a meeting joins death and taxes on the list of things no administrator can avoid.
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Stanley Fish's last day as dean was pretty much like any other: a little routine, a little drama, and a lot left hanging in the air.
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A prerequisite for academe's survival is distinctiveness. Without it, says Stanley Fish, we haven't got a prayer.
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If brevity is advisable for politicians and actors, it is essential for college and university administrators.
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These days, says Stanley Fish, painstakingly negotiated appointment letters might just as well have been written in disappearing ink.
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The trouble with long-range planning, says Stanley Fish, is that it almost never works.
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In defending academe, campus administrators have been diplomatic, conciliatory, and reasonable. Stanley Fish says it's time to be blunt, aggressive, and just a bit arrogant.
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As a genuine academic value, intellectual diversity is a nonstarter. As an imposed imperative, it is a disaster.
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How will academe's leaders respond to the assault under way on its autonomy and professional integrity?
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Or give us revenue. Stanley Fish makes a case for privatizing public universities.
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A recent Republican report on college tuition costs isn't worth the paper it's printed on, says Stanley Fish.
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When a public university hires "rock star professors," does it translate into any benefits for undergraduate education? Stanley Fish thinks so.
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Making them may be a bad idea, writes Stanley Fish. And urging that they be made may mask the real agenda.
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It is only by remaining distinct -- by remaining narrow -- that an enterprise can ensure its survival and its utility.
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Sure there are real free-speech issues on campus, says Stanley Fish. There just aren't that many.
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Democratic values and academic values are not the same, says Stanley Fish, and confusing the two can easily damage the quality of education.
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Administrators are not paid to manage money, says Stanley Fish. They're paid to tend an educational enterprise.
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What do we need administrators for anyway? Stanley Fish knows the answer.
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In a time of shrinking budgets, Stanley Fish still has a song in his heart.
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If you want to save the world as a university administrator, says Stanley Fish, do it on your own time.
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The general reluctance in academe to dismiss or even discipline a professor stems from class prejudice, says Stanley Fish.
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Stanley Fish analyzes the experience of failure on the administrative job market.
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Voting on a tenure case this year? Stanley Fish offers a few rules to help you make your decision for the right reasons.
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Stanley Fish explains why academics seem incapable of treating job candidates as fellow human beings.
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For Stanley Fish, answering the mail is a rehearsal for the work of the day.
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Stanley Fish laments the lost art of speaking and writing precisely.
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Why Stanley Fish continues talking to reporters, against his better judgment.
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... wife, husband, partner, mother, dog, or flower garden. Stanley Fish ruminates on the reasons job candidates turn down offers.
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It may be on some general level, says Stanley Fish, but that doesn't tell you much.
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Unhappy departments, writes Stanley Fish, are each unhappy in their own way.
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Stanley Fish proposes a few administrative pieties that he would like to see banned from polite conversation.
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Stanley Fish looks at the challenges of sustaining an institutional campaign to move up in the academic world.
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