https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-to-academia-now-get-out/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:18:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-to-academia-now-get-out/comment-page-1/#comment-10622 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:18:16 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2086#comment-10622 Otto, if you’re happy to work in Africa, perhaps the time has come for closure about not getting work in American academia

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-to-academia-now-get-out/comment-page-1/#comment-10557 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:07:19 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2086#comment-10557 This tendency to create more unreasonable barriers to employment because it is a employers market is well reflected outside in academia where companies have posted “Unemployed need not apply” in their job postings. This is illegal. Fortunately, 60 Minutes did do an expose and such organizations as NELP are fighting against this type of discrimination. Now you see less of this. What needs to be done is a similar expose on academia.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-to-academia-now-get-out/comment-page-1/#comment-10548 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:19:04 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2086#comment-10548 You know trying to sum up sympathy for left wing American academics who enthusiastically supported black listing people like me from ever working in the US in academia is hard to do. I never even got an interview for an adjunct position despite having two books, several journal articles, a PhD from SOAS, and applying to hundreds of positions. So I really can not bring myself to care about the plight of the left wing ABD jerks with no publications that did get those positions as adjuncts other than to experience Schadenfreude. It is kind of like trying to feel sorry for Trotsky. I just can’t do it. The more US academia eats itself alive the better my institution looks in comparison. But, I am lucky in that unlike the vast majority of American academics I am willing to live and work in Africa where the narrow leftist prejudices of American academia do not reign. For instance here unlike in the US people actually have heard of SOAS and having a degree from there is not considered inferior to one from UNM or Cal State Fresno. So I managed to get a good full time gig without ever being an adjunct despite never getting a US interview.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-to-academia-now-get-out/comment-page-1/#comment-10547 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:18:05 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2086#comment-10547 Hiring recent grads is also a good way to perpetuate an academic caste that has never known defeat, and hence remains unsympathetic to those who have.

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