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The academic life

Obsolete pages deleted from USF directory

Housekeeping note: I have kept a number of obsolete pages on my college’s website server for several years, and this week the directory was deleted. I have the files and will upload some of them here, but that may take a few months to find the time necessary.

“This isn’t the business incubator you’re looking for…”

I’ve stayed away from commenting on the proposal to spin USF’s smallest campus away as a separate polytechnic university because I’ve been fairly busy with other things and because I’m confident in the ability of both faculty governance and my union to represent the interests of faculty in the system. For the record, the USF […]

En route

I’m at the Tampa airport waiting for my flight to Chicago. This semester I am traveling to a single conference, for the History of Education Society. It’s my last year as the HES book exhibit coordinator, and I’m presenting material on comparative attainment data. Because I was traveling last weekend as well (to visit my […]

In search of “Copier Use: The Musical”

My department office manager has been concerned for a few weeks recently with paper use, and while this is the sort of thing I always told myself I’d hate myself for writing, I committed it. I remember a long, long time ago, far, far away, seeing monthly lists of which faculty used how many pieces of […]

I don’t think the weather wants me to visit my daughter

When I helped my daughter move into her student apartment at the beginning of her school year, Hurricane Irene came tromping by to interrupt. Now? It is parents’ weekend at her college, and we had a winter storm at the end of October, one that dumped snow in areas of the Eastern seaboard that don’t […]