Dying for Tenure: Race, Promotion and Tenure

Inside Higher Ed reports this news from MIT:

James Sherley, who started a hunger strike February 5 outside the provost’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ended his protest Friday. Sherley, who is black, maintains that racism played a role in MIT rejecting his tenure bid and he previously pledged to fast until he was either awarded [...]

A PhdComics Break

It could be worse…

Call for Papers — Hawaii International Conference on System Science

I’m sure there’s a call for papers on the web for the HICSS conference in general, here’s one for a minitrack that may be of particular interest to this group:
HICSS ’41 Minitrack
January 7-10, 2008
Big Island, Hawaii, USA
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2007
Author Notification: August 15, 2007
Final Version Submission and Registration: September 15, 2007
Conference: January [...]

A Matter of Style

Like Nick, I’m spending more than a little bit of time this week reviewing research papers.
That brings me to my pet peeve of manuscript reviewing. If you read the APA style guide you might fall under the mistaken impression that you should place all of your figures and tables at the very end of your [...]

Open Thread

What’s on your mind?

Living on a Graduate Student Budget

After a professional career in the computer software industry, one of the biggest adjustments in my return to Graduate School was changing my attitude to money. Now, here in my fourth year, I truly have new found appreciation for the value of a dollar!
I was poking around on the web today for advice on how [...]