Frustrations
Lots of little things done this week but no long stretch of time where I could get one or two significant things done. To steal from the nursery rhyme (can anyone give me an authoritative source, or is this “Trad.”?): Monday’s work was fair for meetings. Tuesday’s work had student seatings. Wednesday’s work was lots […]
Speech codes at USF
My brief column on speech codes at the University of South Florida came out tonight on the union e-mail newsletter, describing a grievance I filed and then amended in June (PDF file). I’ve been sitting on this item for a few months, but it’s clear that between a changeover in the administration staff member who […]
Tensions in higher-ed debates
Erin O’Connor is onto something in her discussion of this week’s Chronicle of Higher Ed article reporting a study of college student’s career orientation and lack of interest in a liberal education, and how a liberal education may well be at odds with the world-competitiveness language accompanying the announcement of a blue-ribbon commission on higher-ed […]
Student gripes
It seems a bit early to be hearing students complain about grades, but what do I know? There are various student gripes circulating around the net. And a colleague told me of a student who claimed that policies at my institution required that all grades be based on a 90%=A, 80%=B, etc., scale. (No, they […]
Productivity in the midst of chaos
By Sherman Dorn on October 6, 2005
After my car adventure yesterday (what? a link to my personal blog? oh, well—the secret’s out for all 1.273510… readers), it turns out I wasn’t half-bad in the productivity department. I sent out a rejection notice (which required piecing together a picture from five reviews), loaded the new version of SAS on my work laptop, […]
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