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Are you feeling exhausted by pre-semester planning? Dreading the new school year? Not sure how to slow down? Here's a tool for planning your time with intentional slowness, care, and accountability to yourself and others. bit.ly/SlowSemester #slowprofessor #CovidCampus
Access note: folder contains PDF with alt-text and headings and a Google docs text-only version. Both have printable/editable tools for your use in planning the semester.
This is the first digital version of my zine, Slow Dwelling, which ran from 2012-2013 and focused on crip time, plant time, and moon time. Here, I share my technique for using a garden-planning temporality that my grandfather taught me (growing by the moon phases) to plan time.
Much truth in @AlexUsherHESA's blog post today, but he's missing the big point that academic workloads have increased as support staff have been cut & TT colleagues not replaced. So ....(1)
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Profs now are still researchers, authors, teachers, thesis supervisors, mentors, truth finders, but d/t cuts, are ALSO secretaries, complaints managers, career coaches, knowledge mobilizers, travel agents, accounting clerks & overall administrivia sherpas (2) @AlexUsherHESA
Add the impact of hiring precariat (sessionals) instead of TT profs: the burden of work for grad student supervision, academic cmttes, tri-council grant adjudication cmttes, peer reviews, collegial governance, is disproportionately heavy on Assoc & Full profs (3) @AlexUsherHESA
