Tag: Faculty

More on David Levy’s Delusions

Post author By Darin
Post date March 29, 2012

My post yesterday joined a chorus of voices pointing out David Levy’s many delusions and errors. Here are a few of the interesting ones: Attacking Community Colleges by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber The Last Enclosures> at Timothy Burke’s Easily Distracted More Accusations of Professor Laziness at NeuroDOJO In Which the Professor Expresses Her Frustration […]

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David Levy is Frighteningly Wrong about Faculty Labor

Post author By Darin
Post date March 28, 2012
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In his recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post, “Do College Professors Work Hard Enough?” David Levy parrots banal misconceptions about what is required of college faculty and how those faculty spend their time. He reduces a faculty career to teaching and assumes that teaching is nothing more than the hours spent in the classroom and […]