Comments on: Professors behaving badly! Fer sure.

By: The Triple Day « Professor Zero

The Triple Day « Professor Zero — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:27:07 +0000

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By: Feminist Avatar

Feminist Avatar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:30:36 +0000

Ooh, true- been there- actually a lot. In fact, I was convinced as a grad student that I was the person used to review the book with *major* issues. In recent days, I have actually got to review some GOOD stuff.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:59:24 +0000

Feminist Avatar–it’s only fun when you’re able to give the book a largely positive review. Less fun is when you feel like you need to note some major problems. Then, even free is to high a price to pay for that book!

By: Feminist Avatar

Feminist Avatar — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:24:11 +0000

Me love the book review- because FREE books and an obligation to read books you know you really should be reading anyway.

By: lesboprof

lesboprof — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:25:56 +0000

I have always been amazed that some professors behave so badly knowing that such information spreads quickly. In my short time in academia, I have come upon many such horrible faculty behavior stories.

For example, I met a grad student from a very prestigious school where a new faculty member from my doc program had previously been employed. She asked if I knew that professor and warned me to stay away from him, noting that he was known to take his doc students’ work, slap his name on it while removing theirs, and publish it. The story is also circulating about another professor who physically attacked a doc student who was rooming with him at a conference. And yet another professor is known by many for blackmailing her former grad student into not applying for a job at a certain school.

Word of bad behavior spreads far and wide, and it can cost you grants, jobs, raises, and other opportunities.

By: Digger

Digger — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:54:42 +0000

The “you don’t know your own mind” thing ticks me right off. It’s one thing to hear it from a perfect stranger; quite something else to hear from people you’ve known for years. It’s really quite shocking to realize that people you know have apparently not considered you to be a whole, thinking, rational person with her own opinions! If not that, then what am I? Hats off to Dr. Crazy for wrestling them to the mat.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:04:27 +0000

Way to go Dr. Crazy! I practically have to pay someone to explain to me what I’m really saying. One wonders what august and non-humanistic policy issue was being defended–besides the primacy of the d00docracy–here. The university’s position on whether Pluto is a planet? A proposal to throw three tired old elements off the periodic table? Whether to keep using the Samuelson text in Econ 101? Something only a d00d could understand?

On book reviews, I had one rejected once, without even the chance to revise and resubmit. An associate book review ed. said it wasn’t even a review, either. I said it was too. Was not. Was too. Was not. It didn’t run. I can’t even remember whether I praised or panned the book.