{"id":3523,"date":"2009-03-21T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/21\/links-for-2009-03-21\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T05:00:22","slug":"links-for-2009-03-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/21\/links-for-2009-03-21\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-03-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/instant_mentor\/weir3\">weir3 \/ Instant Mentor \/ Advice \/ Home &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Unless you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re a botanist or geologist there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s no pedagogical reason to teach outside. The first gorgeous day of spring semester will bring a clamor to meet underneath the spreading maple students spy from the window. Don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do it! That hour will pass with female students tugging at short skirts to maintain modesty, men in khakis seeking not to get grass stains on their trousers, fidgeting when everyone realizes the ground isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t as comfy as it looks, attention lapses every time someone walks by, the cupping of ears to hear comments carried off by the breeze, and untold amounts of day dreaming. You\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be better off declaring a learning moratorium than trying to teach outside.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/03\/19\/9216\">Ethics, academic cloning, and diversity \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;All the special programs and support and mentoring in the world cannot change the fact that a graduate student of any color or gender is spending his\/her 20\u00e2\u0080\u0099s forgoing significant income relative to peers, developing very specialized skills that may not translate easily to a career outside of academia, and is preparing to enter a job market where every open positions gets 100 applications. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/unqualified-offerings\">unqualified-offerings<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=03&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=obama_celebrates_the_iranian_n\">EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;There are times when it&#8217;s hard to believe that this is how my country acts now. That somewhere in government, some young bureaucrat had the idea that the President should publicly honor the Iranian New Year, and that bureaucrat felt that her superiors would also think this a good idea, and, indeed, the thought went all the way to the President, who agreed that a display of engagement and goodwill was consonant with our national values and foreign policy goals.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/ezra-klein\">ezra-klein<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weir3 \/ Instant Mentor \/ Advice \/ Home &#8211; Inside Higher Ed &quot;Unless you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re a botanist or geologist there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s no pedagogical reason to teach outside. The first gorgeous day of spring semester will bring a clamor to meet underneath the spreading maple students spy from the window. Don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do it! That hour will pass with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/21\/links-for-2009-03-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-03-21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}