Re(2): Re(3): non-teaching academics

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 21:32:13 PDT


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>I can't imagine that the communit college is free of local politics.

that's the avoidance answer. the stakes are different in community
college, so the publishing pressure is different.
>
>
>>>> dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu 09/10/01 11:34PM >>>
>
>>xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>>I would like to know: How can I be a teacher without being an academic?
>>
>>Rachel
>>
>>(who loves teaching and hates academia)
>>
>>AH! this i know. leave the university, and teach at community college.
>>:)
>>
>
>- rachel, this really is a response to the difference between academics
>and teaching.
>this is me not being facetious.
>diane

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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
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