Hmm, so the job I left last November is open again. Seems my successor didn’t even last as long as I did . . .
University of Washington Staff Jobs:
General Duties/Description: The Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology is focused on the intersection of law and business innovation by examining the impact on domestic and global markets of changes in law and technology.
The Shidler Center currently consists of faculty and students from the Law School as well as an active external advisory board and external committees helping with specific projects. The Center has received funding from Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon.com and private donors as well as the University and the Law School. The Center offers various types of educational and outreach programs to members of the legal and business communities in Washington State and nationally; edits and produces a quarterly journal for legal practitioners; and is developing longer term research programs for which it will seek external funding.
Perhaps the job isn’t as fulfilling as advertised . . . . ?
What I find interesting is the timing: I recall things taking a serious turn for the worse when summer ended and the traveling faculty had to return to work (as the Superior Professor said, the three best things about academia as June, July, and August). Being a competent academic — with its mixed skills of philosopher/thinker, pedagogue, and colleague — is a challenge all its own: adding onto that the administrative and political savvy and the soft skills of leadership/management that it takes to run a center make it a bit more complicated.
Taking off for three months from a position from a gig that requires your full attention doesn’t seem all that wise: heaping the blame for lack of progress on clerical staff is a poor way of coping with the fruits of that decision. I’m just guessing that the person who replaced me was chased off but at any rate the position is open, either as a result of it not being very compelling or perhaps it became as joyless as it was for me.
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