Category: Higher Education
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Responding to the Recent U.S. Election
The responses have been poor, to understate it. I see little action plan and a lot of reaction to something that was apparently “hard to imagine” – most of the population voting against foreigners and for America first. I’m not sure who finds that hard to imagine, but it shouldn’t be rhetoricians. But here we…
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We’re Doomed
I just saw an English professor post on Facebook that taking students to the theater “Solves nothing,” but is a “nice distraction from things.” We are doomed if English professors have given up on the political, social, and psychological transformations that theater provides. I think we need to force people to read Kenneth Burke.
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New Job
I’d like to say I have a new job but this would be equivocation. What’s really happening is my relationship with my job is totally different than it used to be due to distance in many ways. The first kind of distance – geographical. I now live an hour and 20 minutes from the office.…
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An Argument
The most valuable things for me in college were reading books and discussing them (or listening to the professor talk about them). The other valuable thing was being in clubs, meeting people and making relationships. I don’t think either of these are possible any longer. Students are on campus a minimal amount of time due…
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Bad Teacher
I’ve become a very bad teacher recently and I’d like to figure out why. Reflecting on what a bad teacher is, I’ve come up with the following ideas All of these things are elements of bad teaching and being bad at teaching, but perhaps the bad teacher is someone who just disregards these and doesn’t…
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The God Damn University Athletic Department
Known as the “grease trap” or “drip tray” or “Spill tray” of employment, the University Athletic department is one of the things that needs to be eliminated from the university in totality. Why? University athletics is like an addictive drug to the administration. They see it as easy mode, a way to attract tuition-paying students…
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