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Confessions of a Community College Dean
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Confessions of a Community College Dean is a personal blog at suburbdad.blogspot.com about economics and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990's moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care. For private comments, I can be reached at deandad at gmail dot com. The opinions expressed here are my own and not those o
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I'll repeat the same comment I made on McArdle's blog: Dean Dad has a good discussion of this in today's post, The Tenure/Adjunct Dialectic: http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2010/07/tenureadjunct-dialecti... : "The cost of tenure goes far beyond the salary of the tenured. It includes the opportunity cost of more productive uses that had to be skipped to pay for a decision made decades earlier in a different context. (W…
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