The fall and rise of tenure-track

The New York Times recently published an interesting article on how the “Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns“. In contrast to the general tone of past press coverage, this article speaks out in favor of tenure-track professors.
The shift from a tenured faculty results from financial pressures, administrators’ desire for more flexibility in hiring, firing [...]

Going to ICIS?

Anyone going to ICIS in Montreal? I will be there…

EGOS – CFP -Sub-theme 41: The Effects of Social Movements on Organizational Processes

More EGOS CFP…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: EGOS 2008 (July 10-12, 2008)
Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sub-theme 41: The Effects of Social Movements on Organizational Processes
Call for papers
One of the central forms that ‘upsetting organizations’ take is of stakeholders who demand change from corporations. Curiously, one of the most understudied kinds of stakeholder groups in organization studies [...]

Teaching with Web technology

From ISWORLD this week. This is an interesting list.
Subject: Re: Experiments with Facebook and LinkedIn – Progress report
From: “Larry Press” <lpress [at] csudh.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:12:15 -0700
X-Message-Number: 3
Simha wrote:
> experiment to “to learn and share your knowledge about [Web 2.0] tools,
> and their role in higher education, as a networking tool for academics [...]