A second rec
I got a request yesterday to write another recommendation, er, “evaluation of teaching” for tenure at SLIS. I’m working on it; this one’s a little trickier than the last.
The process illustrates the give-and-take between student and teacher. The two professors I’ve been asked to recommend (and both have been mentioned by name on CavLec, though that’s all the hint I’m giving) are the two I was most impressed with at SLIS. No surprise that they trust me, even despite my well-known ire at academia, not to stab them in the back.
Which I didn’t last time, and won’t this time. I still haven’t heard about the results of the last go-round; how the heck long does the tenure-review process take, anyway? If I were the prof undergoing it, I’d feel more than half-dead by now.