Week one on the New Job

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David D. Perlmutter. “Week One on the New Job.” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2013, pp. A30-31.   What to do and what not to do Mark Shaver for The Chronicle Enlarge Image By David D. Perlmutter During my initial week on the tenure track, I set an example of incompetence that, to my knowledge, no other assistant professor has emulated. I lost the key to my new office—twice. I still remember the moment I opened that door for the first time and scanned the room, bare except for a desk and a computer. I had never in my life been in possession of an entire, unshared room called "my office." (more…)...
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The Good Hello

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David D. Perlmutter. “The Good Hello.“ Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19, 2013, pp. A30-31.   A primer on post-hire etiquette at your new position Brian Taylor for The Chronicle By David D. Perlmutter As of this writing I am in a new position at a different university in a different state. By academic standards my transition has been a whirlwind: I signed a contract a few months ago; my last day at my old office was June 30; my first day on the job here at Texas Tech University was July 1. (more…)...
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Chronicle publishes column: “The Good Goodbye.”

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Chronicle publishes my latest "Career Confidential" column. David D. Perlmutter. "The Good Goodbye." Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 2013. You are never too old in academe to experience what you advise others about. In recent months, while The Chronicle was publishing my columns on job offers and contract negotiations, I was offered and accepted a new position as a dean. Then I confronted a truism I had observed time and time again in other people's searches: The academic-hiring process was not yet over. (more…)...
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Latest Chronicle Column: “The Best Problem: Dealing With More Than One Job Offer”

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Chronicle publishes my latest "Career Confidential" column. David D. Perlmutter. "The Best Problem: Dealing With More Than One Job Offer." Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, 2013, pp. A35.  "In the movie Broadcast News, William Hurt's smooth character, rapidly promoted toward anchorman stardom, asks his less-successful schlumpy colleague, played by Albert Brooks: 'What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?'               Brooks replies: 'Keep it to yourself.'               Yes, it's tough on the job market for tenure-track positions. Nevertheless, thousands of tenure-track offers are made every year across the disciplines, and contract negotiation is the important next step. But what if you get more than one offer, or anticipate another one? I have no national statistic on that occurrence, but I have experienced and heard from many department chairs that top candidates for assistant professorships often receive multiple offers." [Read More]  ...
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Latest Chronicle Column: “The Etiquette of Accepting a Job Offer”

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Chronicle publishes my latest "Career Confidential" column. David D. Perlmutter. "The Etiquette of Accepting a Job Offer." Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2013, pp. A40-41.  "The academic job market is overcrowded, but departments are hiring, and each year thousands of graduate students and other candidates will get phone calls offering them tenure-track positions. It is typically a moment of mutual giddiness. The department heads are excited at the prospect of a terrific new colleague; the job applicants now know that their immediate future is assured. Then, well, complications may ensue." [read more] ...
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Perlmutter Receives CAMWS Special Service Award

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Honored to receive the 2013 CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Special Service Award which goes to "classicists or non-classicists who have made special contributions to the promotion of Latin and Classical studies, especially at the state and local level, in CAMWS territory." Many thanks to the UI Classics Department faculty for nominating me!   http://www.camws.org/awards/service.php ...
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Welcome to PolicyByBlog

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Policybyblog is the blog of the webzine PolicyByBlog.com. It addresses possibly the most significant phenomenon in modern politics, public affairs, political communication, and campaigns and elections: The adoption of the weblog, or blog, by institutions, advocacy groups, government agencies, political parties, commercial corporations, lobbying and public relations firms, and especially political leaders and candidates for elected office. (more…)...
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Are Blogs the New Iowa?

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The Editor of PolicyByBlog and Emily Metzgar, a political columnist, just published (November 03, 2005) in the Christian Science Monitor an essay that deals with the prospect of the blogosphere becoming a "space" for running for President: COULD BLOGS TRUMP STUMPING IN IOWA? Like all newspaper pieces, we needed to be short and we were edited. To expand the context, for over a generation political scientists have noted that there was a campaign for president before the ostensible running season began with the Iowa Caucuses. The journalist Arthur Hadley called this period the "invisible primary." Would-be presidents underwent a series of "tests." (Think Labors of Hercules!) As articulated by political scientist Rhodes Cook, these trails included: (more…)...
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Who was the world’s first blogger?

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Blogs were officially born in December 1997, when Jorn Barger created the term "weblog" on his site, Robot Wisdom. Then in the spring of 1999, Peter Merholz, host of peterme and an internet analyst announced: "For What It's Worth I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short." But in the book I'm working on for Oxford University Press, I'll argue that blog-like political communication ventures have a long history. Here is my favorite candidate for (Proto)political Blogger Zero. (more…)...
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