{"title":"Second Thoughts on the Notion of Raising Standards","authors":"J. Guillory","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.77","url":null,"abstract":"The publication of the report from the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion provoked a range of responses, but none so vehement as those to our recommendation that departments consider alternatives to the monograph as the gold standard in tenure cases. It was possible for some to read the recommendation of the task force as a devaluation of the monograph in favor of a lower standard for tenure. Although the task force was perceived rightly as challenging what has been called the tyranny of the monograph or its fetishization in con texts of review (the subject addressed by my colleague Donald Hall in this issue of Profession), it was by no means our intention to recommend that standards for tenure be lowered. The premise of that perhaps inevitable misunderstanding is that there can be no accomplishment higher than a published book and that the prevalence of the demand for a monograph in tenure reviews is in fact an indication of rising standards in scholarship. In truth, it is not immediately evident why the dominance of the monographic form is a bad thing. But in analyzing the monograph phe nomenon, we on the task force had to not only look at the inherent value of the monograph form but also attempt to identify and assess the full im plications of the monograph's domination for the entire system of evalu ation?from the admission of graduate students to tenure and posttenure merit reviews. Realizing in the end that we had strong reservations about","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"25 1","pages":"77-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91311224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Peer Review and the Fate of the Monograph","authors":"C. Levine","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.100","url":null,"abstract":"The MLA's Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Pro motion is to be commended for producing a thoughtful, fair-minded, and constructive report, informed by careful research into historical trends and current conditions. The report provides an extraordinarily clear and useful account of the present crisis for all of us who are concerned about transformations in scholarly publishing and their particularly heavy im pact on junior faculty members.","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"58 1","pages":"100-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80502628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Historicization of Literary Studies and the Fate of Close Reading","authors":"J. Gallop","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.181","url":null,"abstract":"A few years ago I, along with a few colleagues from my department, went to dinner with a candidate for a junior position in eighteenth-century British literature. In the course of the conversation, the job candidate de clared that it was impossible to get published without archival work. This was something I had never heard, and it stuck in my craw. Whether or not her assessment of things was accurate and despite the likelihood that it varies a lot by field, I recognized that this remark does in fact represent something about the direction of literary studies today. While not literally true, the remark bespeaks what, for those whose disci plinary formation is taking place in the United States in the early twenty first century, is an established norm. This norm diverges widely from those that governed my own professional formation three decades ago, and I want to say?at the risk of sounding like the aging curmudgeon I am becom ing?that I believe this direction literary studies has taken is misguided. It was about twenty years ago that English studies witnessed the rise of new historicism: this burgeoning movement was not only the site of brilliant critical performances but also a much needed corrective to the ahistoricism then predominant. The time was ripe for such a course cor rection: ahistoricism had been persuasively linked to sexism, racism, and elitism; attacks on the canon had called into question the notion of time less works; literary studies had been ahistorical for too long.","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"120 1","pages":"181-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75122590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"K–16: Our Dogmatic Slumbers","authors":"David M. Steiner","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2007.2007.1.141","url":null,"abstract":"Michel Foucault would have found rich material in dissecting America's structures of primary and secondary education, increasingly constituted as they are by a regime of accountability and assessment. In Massachu setts, a state often cited as leading the nation in the development of this regime, history teachers must prepare students for state tests by cover ing just enough information about several hundred historical events or issues to enable their students to get the right answer. The curriculum guide to the Massachusetts English Language Arts assessment lists well over a hundred recommended books that teachers might wish to use in their classrooms. But lest some students be unfairly advantaged by hav ing read books that might appear on the tests, the textual excerpts in those tests don't use examples from any of the recommended books. If we put aside for a moment the issue of the fundamental educational value of these tests, the approach to date has produced at best mixed results: National Assessment of Educational Progress scores are essentially flat, while evidence from international comparisons (PISA and TIMSS) shows that American children's academic skills are too often a mile wide and an inch deep (Beatty). As a result, students are consistently unable to answer questions that do not match a familiar format. Nor is there better news with regard to our use of \"pure\" ability testing such as the SAT. As Rich ard Rothstein has persuasively argued, future life prospects, measured in","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"17 1","pages":"141-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79674710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra M. Block, H. Dubrow, J. Goldfield, Gerald Graff, Jean Howard, J. Ottenhoff, C. Yandell
{"title":"Collegiality: A Roundtable","authors":"Alexandra M. Block, H. Dubrow, J. Goldfield, Gerald Graff, Jean Howard, J. Ottenhoff, C. Yandell","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.100","url":null,"abstract":"To supplement the essays included in this section 0/Profession, Heather Dubrow invited a group of academics to meet during the 2005 MLA convention to discuss collegiality. The participants, who were chosen to represent a range of fields and types of institutions, wrote preliminary statements that were circulated in the group before the meeting and held an informal session before their formal discussion. Some of the questions raised dur ing the discussion arose from the statements or from the informal session.","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"24 1","pages":"100-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79005521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Institutional Text to Bicollegiality","authors":"P. Lewis","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.75","url":null,"abstract":"Does the long-term history of the words college, colleague, and collegiality offer us interesting clues about the particular relevance of the collegial order to the academic profession today? To consider the negative answer first, suppose we take the 1999 statement On Collegiality as a Criterion for Faculty Evaluation of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as our primary guide. Our ongoing preoccupation, it suggests, has to be the evolution of tenure policies. In this context, we must resist proposals to separate collegiality?understood as cooperative behavior in support of the collective enterprise?from faculty service and treat it as a fourth standard for tenure. To be fair and professional, we must define ex pectations of service by delineating the tasks we expect a faculty member to perform and then state clearly what satisfactory performance means. The candidate whose service meets these clear criteria will be regarded as a colleague worthy of citizenship in the academic community. If there is cause to entertain second thoughts about this position, it does not lie in faulty reasoning or inadequate understanding of what is at stake for the professoriat. The AAUP statement aptly underscores the threats to academic freedom, due process, and diversity that a collegiality standard?if it required faculty members to conform to established views or values? could entail. Implicitly, the statement advocates the promotion of collegial virtues through an understanding that links them to all three of the existing","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"25 1","pages":"75-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83528005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lost Speech","authors":"A. Dorfman","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.40","url":null,"abstract":"Last night, at dinner, when you informed me that Julia Kristeva was not going to participate in our Presidential Forum because of health prob lems in her family, I must confess that, along with sadness at her ab sence, I found myself wondering whether this unfortunate circumstance might not allow me to save myself some embarrassment by reading out her speech instead of mine. But you had already asked someone else to do so, and I find myself, therefore, unable to cover for the fact that I cannot deliver the words I had prepared for today's plenary session. Something unexpected happened yesterday, unexpected and yet perhaps not surpris ing. Please believe me that this is not your typical \"the dog ate my home work\" excuse. This really happened. Yesterday, on my arrival from Latin America at Miami International Airport, at exactly 10:31 in the morning, two agents from the Department of Homeland Security impounded my speech on the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century. You might think that such things cannot happen in the United States. And indeed, you have the right to remain skeptical. In fact, that was one of the points in my speech: that we have not only the right but also the obligation to remain skeptical. And rebellious. And vigilant. The only right we do not have is the right to remain silent. But I am getting ahead of myself. The point is that the batteries in my computer ran out al","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"55 1","pages":"40-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81388333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collegiality—with Hard Hats","authors":"Nona Fienberg","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.65","url":null,"abstract":"If you have ever thought that the work of facility planning was just bricks and mortar, if you have ever neglected to acknowledge the work of the physical plant staff, if you have ever passed by a new or renovated build ing on your campus without taking a guided tour, pause and reflect. Look around to evaluate how well college space supports the institution's mission. When architecture succeeds, it has been the work of a hard-hat-wearing team of colleagues from across the campus and beyond. Members of the team have tried, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, to treat one an other's needs with respect. They have attempted to balance the needs of in dividuals and programs with the constraints of resources. Colleagues have worked to define an in-progress identity while honoring long-established habits. Faculty members have measured a history of unfulfilled promises against changing values and future contingencies. That is, the team kept on trying to learn what it means to be collegial. They had no choice. Every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. for the past six months I have joined colleagues for the Media Arts Center Phase 1 job meeting. During the last few meetings, spirits have been high, because hard-won efficiencies in this 3.5 million-dollar adaptive reuse construction project may permit the budget to cover a few more equipment expenses. The old dining commons has finally been cleared of asbestos and thoroughly gutted. Demolition is complete. We meet inside the rough, open, 27,500-square-foot space and walk the rooms lined out with fluorescent orange spray paint on the con crete floor of what will, in late August 2006, open as classrooms, faculty","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"30 1","pages":"65-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91234023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking in Dark Times","authors":"J. Kristeva","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2006.2006.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"An examination of the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century requires us to question ourselves about the value of our work, its place in the world today and its future?possible or impossible?in a world sub ject to the automatization of minds by technology and to wars of religion that encourage archaism and terrorism. The work we do daily cannot be disassociated from this vast horizon, a horizon that brings me to consider three questions: What power do the humanities wield today? Do today's religious conflicts discredit humanism, or, if they are accelerating its re construction, what would be the role of our disciplines in this possible resurrection? Finally, has the \"French model\" gone up in flames? The \"intellectual\" evoked in the title of our forum is a figure from the Enlightenment of which the prototypes date back to the French ency clopedists Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot. In the aftermath of the cri sis of religion to which the encyclopedists are connected, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave rise to new forms of thought that were to become the human and social sciences. These disciplines progressively","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"24 1","pages":"13-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89480529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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