Manners

Posts on manners are coming up all over. Exhibit A: how to insult an academic when inviting her to give a talk. Exhibit B: how to insult an academic when complaining about your own failure to get a job. Exhibit C: how to insult an academic, period. On a slightly different note, the CoHE hosts a first-person essay on collegiality, which, despite the writer's obvious (and, I hasten to add, perfectly justified) irritation, makes some good points about how the meaning of collegiality alters in different academic contexts.

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Er! Not sure this is the best place to comment, but in regard to the collegiality comment. Having sat on some of those 3-yr panels there is perhaps some pressure to find areas of weakness that can be strengthened and in a generally favorable review this doesn't seem like much more than that.

Oh, and after 37 years I think they still say the same about me.