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iTunes rock stars and the cultural script of college teaching
Listmania time! I’m glad that I’m in the tenth hottest profession (though some would disagree). And apparently I have the seventh best job in the whole world. Yeah… Let’s be clear: tenured university faculty (who are the minority of faculty in the U.S.) have significant benefits in terms of due process on the job and […]
MLK weekend plans and reflections
Tiny bits for Friday evening: If he were alive, Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned 80 years old yesterday. He was born in the year that a decade-long agricultural slump turned into the Great Depression. One hundred sixty years ago, or twice his birthday from today, the United States was absorbing the Mexican territories […]
The big news in college football this morning
Congratulations to Western Washington University, which has decided to eliminate its football program rather than have more money sunk into athletics. Athletic Director Lynda Goodrich said, “We are facing a dire financial crisis now and the university wasn’t prepared to continue to bail us out and absorb our budget cuts and our foundation issues.” Tom […]
Most education advocacy groups unable to borrow “Mission Accomplished” banner
Washington, DC (APOCRYPHAL PRESS)–The fundraising group Democrats for Education Reform has found itself unable to secure the Mission Accomplished banner that President George W. Bush used to declare victory in the Iraq War. “Apparently, it’s been reserved by the National Education Association,” said a prominent member of the group when contacted for this story. “They […]
Pets, the White House, and common sense
And for the first time in a while, it’s Out of Left Field Friday! I think my spouse is attracted to animals used in research, but only if she doesn’t know about it. When we started dating in college, she had just recently acquired a ferret, long before we discovered that ferrets are used in […]