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Posts Tagged ‘academic politics’

The colonization of scholarly publishing

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , on October 3, 2017 | 8 Comments »

For those following the debate over the article “The Case for Colonialism,” the following adds little new. It’s mostly a way of summarizing the issue and collecting some useful links in one place.  There’s a lesson for academia in the flare-up over the Third World Quarterly article “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley. The […]

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Not drowning, just coming up for air & waving

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I owe regular readers an explanation for the lengthy hiatus on this blog. As I had predicted would happen back in the summer, this semester turned into an extremely busy one for me. Directing the Environmental Studies program at the University of Vermont is a large part of that busyness: it’s a large, interdisciplinary and […]

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interdisciplinarity & academic restructuring

Posted in Academe, tagged , on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Philosopher of religion and Derridean “atheologian” Mark Taylor’s recent NY Times op-ed End the University as We Know It has generated a lot of discussion in academic circles and blogs. Reading the article reminded me of a situation my institution, the University of Vermont, went through recently, after being approached by a foundation interested in […]

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