{"id":11302,"date":"2018-08-07T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T22:52:50","slug":"promotional-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/directors-corner\/promotional-intellectual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Promotional Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The main tasks of a professor are to teach and do research. The two sometimes vie for priority, but together they encapsulate what we expect professors to do, and they take the bulk of weight in yearly evaluations, tenure judgments, and other professional measures.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems, a new task has been added to the job: promotion. We are urged to promote our classes, our departments, our colleges, our professional organizations. More than anything, we are directed to promote ourselves. The imperative is to call attention to one\u2019s writing, courses, talks, ideas, or persona in media new and old. It could be about your new book on Shakespeare or the history of haberdashery, or something you did, or simply yourself, but the key is to get your brand out there \u2014 if not in The New York Times, then on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or just the department newsletter. And if not quite to the general public, at least to administrators, boards, funders, students, and other professors.<\/p>\n

The conventional standards \u2014 teaching your classes well, publishing in reputable journals or with academic presses \u2014 no longer are enough. You do not exist unless you fire up your personal publicity machine.<\/p>\n

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