Alice Pawley at On Being a Scientist and a Woman writes about her decision to blog under her own name as an untenured professor.
In the end, I decided I couldn't just sit in fear. Blogging under a pseudonym wasn't going to save me from a particularly investigative P&T [promotion and tenure] committee anyway - googling two key words brings up my old blog. But, on the more positive side, I decided when I started my current job that my goal was to be the best professor I could be, the one I wanted to see when I was a graduate student, and that I would. not. be. threatened into submission by colleagues wielding the tenure stick. I am committed to student learning, to faculty learning, to developing useful and inclusive learning environments, to the sifting and winnowing of ideas, to making engineering education better both in how I engage ...
