Policies that mandate faculty "office presence"
(common at 2-year schools and now, we see, increasingly
at 4-years), show a contradiction between pressure
to go virtual and pressure to be in a fixed, supervisable
location.  I'm starting a 14-hour workday in my office right now, so
I don't have any problem being accessible to students; the spirit of the
rule is actually fine with me.  But I was just as accessible yesterday 
"at home" when I was dealing with advising problems over the Internet
all day long.  (What's the difference, since most of my "work" takes 
place over e-mail anyway?)  It's ironic that technologies that have freed faculty from
the physical office create counterpressures to nail them down where they
can be seen: it's one of those "despite or perhaps because of" situations.
TM

Tim Morris, Professor and Associate Chair
English Department Box 19035
University of Texas at Arlington
503 W Third St Carlisle 203
Arlington TX 76019
817.272.2739
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From: Center for Theory [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Silva, David [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:07 PM

Josephine writes:

"Both adjunct and T/TT faculty are facing multiple sets of competing goals"