MORE ACADEMOBOLLOQUILISM - JOB SPEC

.....EXTRACT FROM A JOB SPECIFICATION FOR AN UNSPECIFIED MID-WESTERN USA ARTS FACULTY
ADVERTISING FOR YET ANOTHER TENURED INCONSEQUENTIALITY.

".......aimed at the individual level must pay attention to the professional as well as personal needs of faculty, and must consider both the stage of faculty members’ careers as well as the stage of their lives. This multi-prong, multilevel approach should be coordinated and integrated to assure that new initiatives on the same or across levels synergistically and strategically work together to further faculty development and retention. And in particular, faculty development strategies should be in alignment with the institution’s strategic goals and faculty tenure and promotion criteria so that individual career development simultaneously enhances the institution and rewards faculty.

Below five broad goals are listed that reflect and pertain to different levels of the institution, moving from the macro toward the micro level:

Goal 1. Create supportive institutional structures and policies
Goal 2. Revitalize the Center for Teaching
Goal 3. Develop a mentoring program
Goal 4. Enhance the quality of life for faculty on and off campus
Goal 5. Increase support for faculty scholarship.

All five goals are important and warrant the attention and resources of the institution. Several specific objectives have been identified for each goal.


At no point whatsoever, is there even the briefest description of what this chair is supposed to be teaching. I think the safe assunption is that it really doesn't matter, and actually no one cares.
More self-interested examples of the bland leading the blind..............