Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
I’ve worked in academia long enough to know how fraught it can be. In addition to teaching, research, writing, and all the things we do as part of our regular jobs, we also have to justify our existence. Speaking for libraries, we have to prove and reprove that we are having a measurable positive impact on students. The “measurable” part is hard, especially in the liberal arts. How to do you measure opening students minds to new perspectives? How do you measure inspiration? In Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members, a hilarious satire of academic life, I get the feeling that the return-on-investment thinking is driving protagonist Jason Fitger slowly crazy...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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