{"id":2393,"date":"2013-11-13T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2014-02-10T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:15:04","slug":"tenure-time-use-and-a-quick-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2013\/11\/13\/tenure-time-use-and-a-quick-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenure, Time Use, and a Quick Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2394 \" alt=\"Comic \u00a9 Jorge Cham via PhDComics. Click for original.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2013\/11\/phd082508s-How-Profs-Spend-their-Time-via-PhD-Comics-\u00a9Jorge-Cham-330x165.gif\" width=\"330\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic \u00a9 Jorge Cham via PhDComics. Click for original.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The life and work of a sociology professor was a topic of conversation in my senior capstone course this week. It started when I asked students to estimate what percent of my time was allocated to teaching, research, service, and public outreach\/engagement&#8212;and then told them about how formal tenure requirements and departmental expectations compared with my actual hours worked on any given week. I was trying to illustrate competing pressures and demands, and I couldn\u2019t help but laugh when one student sent along this cartoon (with no comment or analysis).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;d gone overboard \u00a0stressing the disconnections? I really do love my job.<\/p>\n<p>But back to class: one of the biggest topics of inquiry and conversation involved the question of where outreach and engagement fit in the world of higher education? My students this semester have been fascinated with and actually kind of inspired by what we call\u201cpublic sociology,\u201d while also puzzled by its lack of recognition and reward in the big scheme of academia,\u00a0especially in the context of a public land grant institution like we have here at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life and work of a sociology professor was a topic of conversation in my senior capstone course this week. It started when I asked students to estimate what percent of my time was allocated to teaching, research, service, and public outreach\/engagement&#8212;and then told them about how formal tenure requirements and departmental expectations compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,15,34,78,26,646],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-higher-education","tag-public-sociology","tag-time-use"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2013\/11\/phd082508s-How-Profs-Spend-their-Time-via-PhD-Comics-\u00a9Jorge-Cham.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}