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Money Badly Spent

By K.C. Johnson

At Minding the Campus, I have an essay on a highly dubious federal funding decision: nearly $50,000 to a conference organized by Paula McClain--yes, that Paula McClain--to "offer guidance" to minority political science junior faculty members on how to achieve tenure. Among the apparent items discussed--how to reconcile the tenure bid with engaging in the type of social activism championed by the Group of 88.In any event, below is the complete workshop program for which taxpayers forked over nearly $50,000. Note that, contrary to most academic conferences, it contains no specific presenters or topics of presentations, only vague seminar session titles. And even this took some effort to receive--it's not posted on the Duke program website, the program's office repeatedly refused to provide it to me, and I only obtained if through the gracious intervention of the NSF program officer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).