I was dismayed by something I experienced yesterday. A professor, her eyes looking inattentively ahead, without a by-your-leave brusquely and impolitely brushed by and slightly pushed pass two of the custodial crew with whom I was talking as if they didn’t exist and as if she had the unchallenged right of way in the [...]
About fifteen years ago, the Georgia legislature decreed that every tenured professor had to go through a post-tenure review process and would go through such a process every five years henceforth. It was not greeted with hosannas by faculties in the University of Georgia System. “Bravos” and applause didn’t echo through the halls of [...]
I went out this morning just before dawn. It was a little before 5 a.m. I was passing houses that lined the street. A light went on in one of them. I could not help wondering who was awakening. Was breakfast about to be ready? Was she or he getting ready to prepare the [...]
