Inside Higher Ed: Too much information?
“I shouldn’t be doing this. I’ll be going up for tenure soon,” wrote Daniel Drezner on September 10, 2002, in introducing his blog, which quickly built a large audience of academics and others with its observations on politics, international relations and economics.
On Saturday, Drezner recalled those words — the first on his blog — when he wrote that he had been rejected for tenure by the political science department at the University of Chicago. The university’s decision surprised not only Drezner, but many of his readers, who rushed to their own Web sites to denounce Chicago. Several noted that another academic blogger had come up for tenure at Chicago this year — and also been rejected. And these rejections have renewed a debate about whether blogging without tenure is too risky.
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