(Reposted from 9/9/15) Jesse Stommel is leaving a tenure-track job at Wisconsin to go take a job as a faculty development director at the University of Mary Washingon. He wrote a powerful blog post about the descision, which you should read. I want to highlight just one point, out of the many, skipping the issue…
Here’s a great piece from Conditionally Accepted about the way being on the tenure-track makes us conservative. It’s wide-ranging and important, thinking about identity and many related issues. Read it all. Here’s the bit that especially dovetails with my interests on public writing, activism, and the academy [my emphasis]: More generally, I bear the burden…