I'm glad you're reflecting on this, and hope you're also talking about it with colleagues IRL, since they may have insights into the campus culture on your particular campus and have likely navigated scenarios like this within that specific culture.
That said, since you're on the job market and it takes zero seconds to connect your name to this site, I'd be cautious about blogging about students and colleagues. While your current colleagues are clearly not the target audience here, consider that you may want their help in your job search; your post about spousal hires, or even your comment in this post about the colleague who teaches about race, are not likely to be genuinely anonymous to folks in such a small community and might provoke ill will. Students will (or have) read this. And for search committees, many would think twice about hiring someone who is going to write so freely about sensitive issues like this.
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Date: 2012-03-04 08:42 pm (UTC)That said, since you're on the job market and it takes zero seconds to connect your name to this site, I'd be cautious about blogging about students and colleagues. While your current colleagues are clearly not the target audience here, consider that you may want their help in your job search; your post about spousal hires, or even your comment in this post about the colleague who teaches about race, are not likely to be genuinely anonymous to folks in such a small community and might provoke ill will. Students will (or have) read this. And for search committees, many would think twice about hiring someone who is going to write so freely about sensitive issues like this.