Analysis Of A Slow-Professor

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Introduction: Part One “A Slow-Professor is not entirely self-serving” For the past few months, I have been considering moving forward with a doctorate degree after I am finished with graduate school; which was one of the reasons why I was motivated to analyze an organizational development competency and apply to the field of academics. Knowing this, I was happy and a little surprised to see that authors and professors themselves, Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber, acknowledge that their new book titled, Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, is partly addressed to the generation of graduate students who have either completed (or almost completed) their master’s degree. Last month, the two Canadian humanities professors …show more content…

Some colleges and universities are now promoting “free tuition” rates for certain qualified students, and using different advertising techniques from the traditional college mailer to using commercials on television and radio spots on the air. There is even more of a focus on how much the college and universities profit, and how much money the school can invest in research departments or grants. There is a new feeling of “corporate-ness” that colleges are utilizing to engage and recruit new students, and even using this corporate communication method with their current student base when handling large requests, policy changes or conflicts on camps. This Competency Analysis relates to individual(s) and team leadership development though the integration of study and personal reflection in the Academic field, to support what Berg and Seeber are promoting with their new …show more content…

Even Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker of the 1830s and 1840s who wrote extensively about his journeys to the United States, wrote that Americans had a particular “feverish” demeanor when it came to pursuing “their own welfare.” And the German Sociologist, Max Weber, argues that the emphasis of “hard work, frugality, and diligence” as a constant variable to an individual could be linked to the person’s faith. Christianity “re-conceptualized” work as a duty that benefits both the individual and society as a whole. Hard work and “busyness” is used as an indicator of who “may be predestined for

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