re: Carol's comments
Steve McCarty (steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:02:33 -1000
It was exceedingly gracious of Julia Keefer to contribute to the discussion
despite something I expressed poorly, and I stand corrected. I applaud
those who are adjunct teachers by choice, and otherwise involved in the
community. I'm not close to the situation except for similar trends in
Japan such as the undermining of tenure, but in recent history great
strides were made in Academia while there was academic freedom
under tenure, and it is unfortunate when individuals are deprived of
the possibility of tenure on other than scholarly grounds. So it must add
insult to injury if adjuncts are treated disrespectfully. Most of you are
more eminent than I am, so such disrespect would not have occurred to me.
Please excuse the imprecision. All too often I find the Japanese expression
"Sumimasen" useful, for it means both "I'm sorry" and "Thank you." May its
literal meaning of never ending also apply to our association.
Allow me to also introduce the bio-page for my conference presentation:
<http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon98/keynote/mccarty.bio.html>.
Collegially,
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College, Japan
steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp