Posts from Lesboprof
After meeting with all of my faculty, and hanging out with faculty and academic administrators for the last 15 years (or 25, if we count the time I was in grad school), I find myself reflecting on how embattled the academic denizens seem to be. There are a lot of victims running around the hallowed…
Since spring is a time for resurrections, or so my Christian friends tell me, I thought I would come back to the bloggy world after almost a year’s absence. If you can’t tell, my administrative position has represented an incredibly difficult and time-consuming shift. I used to try to blog once a…
Lesboprof reflects on critiques of Jodie Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes and suggests a reframe and a little empathy.
An administrator gains a new appreciation for the role of university counsel.
After a year of administration, Lesboprof reflects on one area of her learning.
Lesboprof puts on her hip waders and peers into the hiring process.
A guest post, channeled from a fictional character from Victorian England, provides basic bathroom etiquette for academic women.
If we buy that it is a dog-eat-dog world, what does that make us? An administrator ruminates on trust and competition in academic friendships.
Remembering how challenging the first few months in a new town can be, an administrator offers some suggestions for making new faculty feel welcome.
Lesboprof reports from the office, where she is spending her first full summer as a full-time administrator, that university business--and some fun--still continues after spring semester ended.