Casualization trend is bad for higher ed
I’ve arrived at the end of the sixth year, and I know the Dean’s Office hopes it is my last. In the Graduate School of the future, “2-4” always equals six. Part of making that happen is the Dissertation Progress Report, requests for which were e-mailed to Ph.D. candidates a few days ago. Like Nietzsche’s dragon with scales that read “thou shalt” and “thou shalt not,” it is replete with commandments of what I will submit, describe, report and confess. Let me try to take stock of what I’ve done and learned, here at what is supposed to be the end of my graduate career. At least it has this...
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