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	<description>&#34;nothing natural about it!&#34;</description>
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		<title>Profiles in Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm never on time in academia.  In fact, I think always trying to be on time-- to be timely, fashionable, etc.-- is one of the big problems of academic culture. Last year or the year before it was Tweeting; now that's passed and we are on to Klout or, I suppose, <a href="http://klout.com/home">Klouting</a>....

Anyway, I was doing my usual behind the times reading this morning and found this passage by the ACTA, in defense of a blogger recently <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/a-note-to-readers/46608">dumped </a>by the Chronicle of Higher Education:
<blockquote>She argued on the basis of the Chronicle's own descriptions of the dissertations that they were substituting political partisanship for objective research and analysis. Her piece was sharp, controversial, and sarcastic, but certainly not out of...]]></description>
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		<title>My Wife Drives Two Cadillacs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ray Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my mostly half serious quest to found a new academic discipline called 'corruption studies' I'd like to draw on the study of racial intolerance and white supremacy, which distinguishes between run of the mill individual racism and institutionalize racism. A similar distinction can be made between corrupt people in academia-- administrative supremacists, as it were-- and institutionalized corruption. Each is in the news in Illinois this week.

The institutionalized corruption in question starts with the ongoing rise in salaries of administrators despite the ongoing funding crisis of higher education and the economic slow-down. While Rome burns, it seems, administrators are only willing to slow down their greed to a few points below inflation ("<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Salaries-Rise-for-Senior/130928/" target="_blank">Salaries Rise for Senior Administrators...]]></description>
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