tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357866983330020330.post1515983820624535930..comments2023-10-25T07:19:05.041-05:00Comments on Purring Prophecy: End of the First Year on the Tenure Track: Part One - the Faculty Meetingmedieval womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457130525946143002noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357866983330020330.post-25622406764434948342008-06-03T19:49:00.000-05:002008-06-03T19:49:00.000-05:00MW, this is so interesting. I'm glad you're havin...MW, this is so interesting. I'm glad you're having a good experience, first off. Second, at my grad institution, where I did sit in on department meetings, I was basically told that a good deal of the discussions are planned out beforehand, especially search committee suggestions. I wonder whether you've found that to be the case. In that particular department, perhaps people knew each other so well that they could anticipate each other's objections and be ready for them. The planning and plotting is something I had never thought about before. I'd love your thoughts.Earnest Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01947000435270263070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357866983330020330.post-76619931562250150172008-05-24T10:43:00.000-05:002008-05-24T10:43:00.000-05:00I, too, am impressed by your assertiveness. I don'...I, too, am impressed by your assertiveness. I don't think I said more than three words in my faculty meetings for the first year. It's not that my colleagues weren't friendly to junior faculty (far from it) it's just that I usually had little investment in the issues being discussed, since I am something of an outlier at OPU, in terms of research and teaching interests. <BR/><BR/>Actually, that remains the case and I STILL am somewhat quiet in meetings.squadratomagicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977502780584567298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357866983330020330.post-34029216300229467632008-05-23T03:51:00.000-05:002008-05-23T03:51:00.000-05:00How wonderful to have become so aware of your own ...How wonderful to have become so aware of your own voice and the stakes in such things!! I am inspired by you - I remain a little alienated by my department workings and meetings. I'm seriously going to reflect on them in a new light after reading this post! :)Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.com