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Tania Smith knocks it out of the park, looking at Isocrates and at the ways that classical rhetoric is genuinely a resource for work across disciplines.

http://edurhetor.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/isocrates-and-organizational-l...

Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 16, 2013 - 1:27pm

Creativity Research Journal
Volume 25, Issue 2, 2013

Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure

Maja Djikica*, Keith Oatleya & Mihnea C. Moldoveanua
pages 149-154

Abstract

What to expect when you're expecting tenure...

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 16, 2013 - 8:54am

What to expect when you're expecting tenure...

Some of you are getting ready to move into new jobs this summer. Woohoo! Grad school, postdoc, and adjunct teaching did not prepare me for a tenure-track job in some important ways. Here's a few things it would have helped me to know from the get-go.

1. Once you've landed a TT job, you cannot rest on your laurels. The quest for tenure begins before you've got your books unpacked. Seriously. Hit the ground running, kid. (If you're in a department that lets you go up for tenure early, this is doubly true.)

Prioritizing Academic Programs

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 16, 2013 - 2:01am

My institution is being asked to use the Dickeson model to prioritize -- to cut some programs and to reallocate the funding saved to the remaining programs (where programs means everything from facilities to philosophy minors).

I read the book on the subject in the intermissions at a daylong one-act play festival (Josey=Bass is always readable). Before I start to analyze it -- anyone gone through this at their institution and have advice for me?

On Being a Professor, October 18th 2013

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 15, 2013 - 5:52pm

On Being a Professor, October 18th 2013
full name / name of organization:
Sandra E. Weissinger/ Polymath
contact email:
sweissi@siue.edu
This special issue of Polymath invites scholars from across the academy, regardless of discipline, rank or employment status, to contribute to our knowledge concerning the experience of being a professor. Of special interest are articles and book reviews on the lived experiences of academics across disciplines, employment status, race, class background, gender, ability, age, and difference.

CFP: Inkshed Publications

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cfp

Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 13, 2013 - 9:26pm

CFP: Inkshed Publications
Posted on June 12, 2013 by CSSR Webmaster
Inkshed Publications is currently seeking proposals for edited collections (~250 pages), monographs (~100-125 pages), and studies (30-70 pages) on a wide variety of topics including:

writing studies research and pedagogy
writing centre research and practice
rhetoric (theories of and specific practices)
critical literacy studies of all kinds
studies of texts and how they are composed, read, and used
studies of literature and response to literature