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A Fond Farewell
In 1994, I signed on as AAUP general secretary for a three-year term because I was not sure that I could be happy away from teaching and research....
Academe, 05/01/04 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Outsourcing
Some of the managerial experiments conducted in the last two decades of the late, sometimes lamented, twentieth century gave rise to a number of...
Academe, 03/01/04 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Good Sports
Reporting on the breakout of a particularly egregious scandal in intercollegiate athletics last year, a national newspaper asked how such abuses...
Academe, 01/01/04 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Tenure and Its Discontents
In recent columns, I have tried to counter several of the arguments against tenure that have been offered by its current critics. Turning the...
Academe, 11/01/03 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Academic freedom without tenure: New pathways
In issuing its "inquiries" on tenure in the mid 1990s, the New Pathways Project sought to avoid reverting to the old philosophical debates about...
Academe, 09/01/03 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
New pathways and the new American scholar
In my last column, I began a three-part analysis of the New Pathways Project undertaken by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) in...
Academe, 07/01/03 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
New pathways
Waiting in the airport for a delayed plane the day after Washington's Big Storm last winter, I ran into an administrative colleague from a Texas...
Academe, 05/01/03 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
A darkling plain?
The Mall in Washington, D.C., glittered in the unexpected Indian summer heat on the fall afternoon of my second visit to the site of the Solar...
Academe, 03/01/03 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Pragmatism and the AAUP
Noting that the founding of the AAUP figures importantly in its chapter on "freedoms," a friend recently gave me a copy of Louis Menand's The...
Academe, 09/01/02 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication -
Tenure now
FROM THE GENERAL SECRETARY This is another tenure column. I've said it once, but I need to say it again. The problem with tenure is that there is...
Academe, 07/01/02 by Burgan, Mary A · More from publication
