{"id":19439,"date":"2025-02-24T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:29:43","slug":"the-slow-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/the-slow-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By <strong>Maggie Berg &amp;&nbsp;Barbara K. Seeber<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book explores how the corporatization of universities has accelerated the pace of academic life, often to the detriment of education and scholarship. The authors advocate for adopting the principles of the Slow movement to counteract this trend. They focus on individual faculty members, offering strategies to reduce stress and enhance teaching, research, and collegiality. This book is essential for anyone in academia concerned about the fast-paced nature of modern university life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Slow-professor-10th-anniversary.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26601\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6249962245915008;width:235px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Slow-professor-10th-anniversary.jpg 625w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Slow-professor-10th-anniversary-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Slow-professor-10th-anniversary-364x582.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Slow-professor-10th-anniversary-500x800.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(115 pages)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9781487521851\">Link to purchase the book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maggie Berg &amp;&nbsp;Barbara K. Seeber This book explores how the corporatization of universities has accelerated the pace of academic life, often to the detriment of education and scholarship. The authors advocate for adopting the principles of the Slow movement to counteract this trend. They focus on individual faculty members, offering strategies to reduce stress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26615,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/26615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}