Without my Uncle Rat's consent, I wouldn't marry the President
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSo, yesterday was a hell-day at the day-job and today shaping up to be another. Times are hard for the race of traveling scholars (those of you who thought we made that up for the Crystal Books -- nope; true fact. Most real-life scholars don't defend their work with knives, though. At least, not physical knives.) In any case, times are hard; a lot of the state universities, and a good many of the private colleges have simply stopped hiring temp professors to fill in during sabbaticals; a lot more have decided not to fill vacancies as they come up. Budgetary constraints, yanno.
What that means is that there's a Whole Lot of competition for those few jobs remaining, which in turn means -- an insane amount of data entry for Yr Hmbl Narrator, who happens to be lucky enough to work at a college that has not (yet, at least) had to adopt Draconian Measures.
Also yesterday ran into a Policy which is, in fact, an Unfunded Mandate illuminating the rift between Admin and Academic. I mean, when someone tells me that they've spoken to "all the departments on campus" about an Important Policy, "except for the faculty chairs" (the group most impacted by this Important Policy), it does kinda make my head spin around.
I can't see why we can't be One People about this policy, myself. It's not like the faculty chairs -- or the secretaries, who will actually be responsible for implementing the policy -- will be called on the carpet if the Important Policy isn't followed. It's the college that's going to be in trouble. But, hey. I am only an egg.
Time to go.
What that means is that there's a Whole Lot of competition for those few jobs remaining, which in turn means -- an insane amount of data entry for Yr Hmbl Narrator, who happens to be lucky enough to work at a college that has not (yet, at least) had to adopt Draconian Measures.
Also yesterday ran into a Policy which is, in fact, an Unfunded Mandate illuminating the rift between Admin and Academic. I mean, when someone tells me that they've spoken to "all the departments on campus" about an Important Policy, "except for the faculty chairs" (the group most impacted by this Important Policy), it does kinda make my head spin around.
I can't see why we can't be One People about this policy, myself. It's not like the faculty chairs -- or the secretaries, who will actually be responsible for implementing the policy -- will be called on the carpet if the Important Policy isn't followed. It's the college that's going to be in trouble. But, hey. I am only an egg.
Time to go.
