Academic culture

Why do we need the university? Episode 12: The Campus as Social Infrastructure

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Here are more thoughts on academic life! Episode 12 is at your service: What the university has that cannot be delivered Two episodes ago I argued that the university’s peculiar gift is slow time — the licence to sit with a question for fifteen years. In the last one I argued that its other gift … Read more

Thoughts on academic life (2)- The Theater of Scholarly Collegiality

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As noted in the first episode, this series is based on my observations in many different settings, not necessarily happening in my own department. In fact, I am relatively lucky to be there, exposed to fewer troubles than I usually observe.  “These meetings are so valuable,” a colleague proclaimed at the conclusion of yet another … Read more