Comments on: (Pagan) News of Note http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Neil Jamieson-Williams http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-1617 Neil Jamieson-Williams Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:48:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note-48.html#comment-1617 Okay... This is Neil Jamieson-Williams speaking. Contrary to opinion expresed on Rate My Professors, I am still employed at M C of Applied Arts and Technology where I teach anthropology and sociology. The "academic" portion of our college is underappreciated by college management who would prefer that the college was 100% vocational only (like CDI). Faculty who engage in non-applied research and publication are viewed by management as exhibitting a form of deviant behaviour akin to public indecency -- the college wants no connexion to any faculty research that is not applied research. They also don't approve of Modern Pagans either.<br/><br/>I am supposed to be presenting two methodological papers at the 25th Annual Qualitatives next month. I have worked it out with the conference organisers about my affiliation issue. Now, I just received email from management yesterday that I am not to attend the Qualitatives and that I must attend a conference on curriculum development that is scheduled on the same days. I am grieving this with the union, but that process takes months...<br/><br/>P.S. By the way, Chas, this is why you never received those articles we discussed for The Pomegranate -- not permitted by management.<br/><br/>Neil Jamieson-Williams Okay… This is Neil Jamieson-Williams speaking. Contrary to opinion expresed on Rate My Professors, I am still employed at M C of Applied Arts and Technology where I teach anthropology and sociology. The “academic” portion of our college is underappreciated by college management who would prefer that the college was 100% vocational only (like CDI). Faculty who engage in non-applied research and publication are viewed by management as exhibitting a form of deviant behaviour akin to public indecency — the college wants no connexion to any faculty research that is not applied research. They also don’t approve of Modern Pagans either.

I am supposed to be presenting two methodological papers at the 25th Annual Qualitatives next month. I have worked it out with the conference organisers about my affiliation issue. Now, I just received email from management yesterday that I am not to attend the Qualitatives and that I must attend a conference on curriculum development that is scheduled on the same days. I am grieving this with the union, but that process takes months…

P.S. By the way, Chas, this is why you never received those articles we discussed for The Pomegranate — not permitted by management.

Neil Jamieson-Williams

]]> By: Robert Mathiesen (Providence, RI) http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-1522 Robert Mathiesen (Providence, RI) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:40:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note-48.html#comment-1522 Ugh, the comment to which I posted the correction seems to have gone lost in the ether.<br/><br/>I had referred to his author page on Australopithecine Press's web-site, where it says:<br/><br/>"Neil holds degrees in anthropology and sociology and he is a Professor of social sciences at a college of applied arts and sciences in southern Ontario. He is not permitted to reveal his academic affiliation as his employer strongly disapproves of his research area and has demanded that Neil provide no academic affiliation for any conference papers that he presents, any journal articles or books that are published, or any other form of publication of his work."<br/><br/>So it appears to be a restriction placed on this one professor only because of his field of research.<br/><br/>After forty years in the trenches of academe, I can well believe such a thing. All it would take is a few timorous, small-minded administrators.<br/><br/>Then I had referred to the entries for him on Rate My Professors, where one comment implied that he was no longer connected with the college in question, but -- as I did not notice at first -- that entry was dated 2005. Ugh, the comment to which I posted the correction seems to have gone lost in the ether.

I had referred to his author page on Australopithecine Press’s web-site, where it says:

“Neil holds degrees in anthropology and sociology and he is a Professor of social sciences at a college of applied arts and sciences in southern Ontario. He is not permitted to reveal his academic affiliation as his employer strongly disapproves of his research area and has demanded that Neil provide no academic affiliation for any conference papers that he presents, any journal articles or books that are published, or any other form of publication of his work.”

So it appears to be a restriction placed on this one professor only because of his field of research.

After forty years in the trenches of academe, I can well believe such a thing. All it would take is a few timorous, small-minded administrators.

Then I had referred to the entries for him on Rate My Professors, where one comment implied that he was no longer connected with the college in question, but — as I did not notice at first — that entry was dated 2005.

]]> By: Robert Mathiesen (Providence, RI) http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-1521 Robert Mathiesen (Providence, RI) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:32:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note-48.html#comment-1521 Correction: the comment suggesting that he is no longer a professor ar Mohawk is dated 2005; and later comments show him in the classroom again. My bad! So it doesn't apply to whatever is going on now. Correction: the comment suggesting that he is no longer a professor ar Mohawk is dated 2005; and later comments show him in the classroom again. My bad! So it doesn’t apply to whatever is going on now.

]]> By: Chas S. Clifton http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-1518 Chas S. Clifton Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:26:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/03/pagan-news-of-note-48.html#comment-1518 In the comment on Witches' Voice that you linked to, Jamieson-Williams writes,<br/><br/>"I am prohibited by my employer from using my academic affiliation for any conference papers that I present, any journal articles or books that are published, or any other form of publication of my work."<br/><br/>What? I have taught at only two colleges, but I never heard of such a prohibition.<br/><br/>Academic conferences, for example, always list the institutional affiliation of participants.<br/><br/>I wonder about the guy. In the comment on Witches’ Voice that you linked to, Jamieson-Williams writes,

“I am prohibited by my employer from using my academic affiliation for any conference papers that I present, any journal articles or books that are published, or any other form of publication of my work.”

What? I have taught at only two colleges, but I never heard of such a prohibition.

Academic conferences, for example, always list the institutional affiliation of participants.

I wonder about the guy.

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