Subject: Re: Job opportunity at Lancaster University (UK) purely putrid
From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 10:28:14 EDT
Thanks Robert, but I will differ with you on one point, this is not a
pointless exercise.
To try to have this subject opened up 20 years ago was difficult, in
the discipline of ea it was impossible. To go to an administrator and
talk about 'national' or 'international profile' was to met by a
blank stare.
This is no longer the case. I would propose that there are now a
couple of hundred people in the academic ea world who have taken note
that 'everything' and 'everywhere' can come in for quite a bit of
attention.
This list is read (and forwarded) by people in the USA, Oz/NZ, UK,
Canada, France, Germany, Scandinavia throughout the EU, in Central
and South America. The topic and the words provide professional
instructors with 'ammunition' to take to the Heads, Chairs and Deans.
cec-conference and its pre-deceased predecessor cecdiscussed have
shown lights onto most of the academic institutions in the UK, with
the effect I have noted, that the UK has become a "destination of
choice" within the ea community. Look at the inflow of Canadians and
Americans into UK institutions, and this has not been because of
their "outreach" programs, but because of (1) excellence, and (2)
some degree of notoriety regarding specific south Asian foods.
In departmental meetings in 20 institutions, the experience of 'being
connected', 'being seen' and 'being known' adds to the means by which
EaSt practitioners can get their needs heard and attended to.
Best
Kevin
Make noise! The squeaky turntable is replaced by a computer.
At 11:11 AM +0100 8/22/07, Robert J. Dow wrote:
>...
>However, it seems like this comes down to no more than a
>thinly-veiled addition to the list's perennial and somewhat
>pointless anti-academic rant. And why is this job/Lancaster being
>picked on?: it seems a fairly unpleasant thing to do.
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