My focus was on academic appointment. That went on before the Internet. I didn't really pay a lot of attention to most of the thread.
Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of socialismorbarbarism > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 3:01 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The New Economy of Letters - The Chronicle Review - The > Chronicle of Higher Education > > "This is all old dull news ... Search out a book from about 50 years ago" > > > Holy shit! They had website hit counts 50 years ago, and were writing about > it! Please tell me more, professor. > > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > socialismorbarbarism > > > > > "some tenure evaluations are conducted by counting 'hits'" > > > > Holy shit. Is this true? Anyone in academe out there heard of/seen > such a > > thing? Lepore throws it out in a parenthetical statement (well, > between > two > > em-dashes) as if it shouldn't surprise anybody. Well, maybe it > shouldn't, > but > > my first reaction on reading this was, "That's bullshit." Does anyone > know > > more? > > > ------------- > > Search out a book from about 50 years ago (around 1960) entitled > The > Academic Market Place. > > This is all old dull news and really isn't relevant for any serious > consideration of universities in the U.S. > > Carrol > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
