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Interdisciplinary conversations : challenging habits of thought
Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of interdisciplinary seminars for faculty, Interdisciplinary Conversations investigates pivotal interdisciplinary conversations and analyzes the factors that make them work.
Past discussions about barriers to interdisciplinary collaborations fixate on funding, the academic reward system, and the difficulties of evaluating research from multiple fields. This book uncovers barriers that are hidden: disciplinary habits of mind, disciplinary cultures, and interpersonal dynamics. Once uncovered, these barriers can be broken down by faculty members and administrators. While clarion calls for interdisciplinarity rise in chorus, this book lays out a clear vision of how to realize the creative potential of interdisciplinary conversations.
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FACULTY SALARIES AND THE MAXIMIZATION OF PRESTIGE
Through the lens of the emerging economic theory of higher education, we look at the relationship between salary and prestige. Starting from the premise that academic institutions seek to maximize prestige, we hypothesize that monetary rewards are higher for faculty activities that confer prestige. We use data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), and regression analysis to examine the determinants of salaries. The results are consistent with the theory that faculty members are financially rewarded for enhancing institutional prestige. There is some evidence that the rewards are higher in science and engineering. Spending more time on teaching has no effect on salary, even in comprehensive universities and liberal arts colleges. Findings suggest that other types of institutions are emulating research institutions in their pursuit of prestige. Looking at faculty salaries through this lens raises serious questions about the implications of the current reward system in higher education.
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Austeridad
La austeridad económica se define como una disminución en el gasto del gobierno para reducir los déficits públicos. La política es recetada por los que creen en ella, incluso cuando el resultado es una gran cantidad de dolor - y aún cuando se traduce en una mayor pérdida de empleos y disminución en el crecimiento económico. La palabra austeridad evoca el sufrimiento, la gravedad, la amargura, la dureza, la abnegación y la escasez. En su sentido económico, está diseñada para transmitir la necesidad de que los habitantes de un país tomen la medicina amarga para curar la enfermedad de su economía, es decir, para curar la recesión que causó la disminución de los ingresos fiscales, y por lo tanto el mayor déficit en primer lugar. Discurso de Clausura de la Conferencia International Association for Feminist (IAFFE), Berlin, Julio de 2015. Se publica con la autorización de su autora. Traducción de Wesley Marshall y Eugenia Correa.
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What’s a Wife Worth?
What’s a wife worth? What’s a wife worth in a marriage that started with zero assets but after thirty years of marriage has assets of about $100 million, which came from the husband’s earnings and stock options? What’s the “equitable distribution” at the time of divorce of that approximately $100 million when, during most of the marriage, the wife has been a full-time homemaker, mother, and corporate wife? In other words, how should we think about valuing women’s unpaid, invisible work?
In the 1996 Connecticut divorce case of Wendt v. Wendt, the facts were precisely those I just described. Since
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Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens
Feminist economics is a rethinking of the discipline of economics for the purpose of improving women's economic condition. As a by-product (or external benefit) of this rethinking, feminist economics provides an improvement of economic theory and policy. Feminist economics is a radical endeavor. In a discipline that is still remarkably positivist, feminist economics questions the whole notion of objectivity and argues that what one chooses to work on and how one formulates theories and policy recommendations are dependent upon one's culture, one's position in society and one's experiences. Feminist economics not only exposes the hidden political agendas of received economic doctrine, it straightforwardly acknowledges its own own economic and political agenda - the improvement of women's economic condition.
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Communicating Across the Academic Divide
Universities must nurture interdisciplinary relationships, which can lead to creative ideas that could fuel the economy's long-term health. Universities neglect an important source of potential innovation: the cross-fertilization of ideas that comes from productive conversations across disciplines.
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