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Academic and Institutional Humility

This week was another week where I was very much about contemplating the interconnected threads of what happens in academe. I know we sort of in principle understand how so much of what we do in higher education is connected. People talk about that interconnectedness in principle all the time in different ways. But I don't think one really deeply reflects on that interconnectedness until asks come in and you have to give yourself a moment of pause and reflect and realize how one sided a relationship is and how boundaries are a thing that need to be respected. This had me in turn thinking about humility. And I see that the last time I went on my humility diatribe it was pretty much exactly two years ago so I guess it is time to revisit this. As we are entering conference season, a lot of folk are sending in abstracts, or receiving emails that their work was accepted or the opposite poorly framed rejections that demonstrate that no care was actually given in the review of the abstrac

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