Andrew Meyer, disruptions, and free speech
The news has been flying on the tasering of Andrew Meyer at a University of Florida speech of Senator John Kerry. The best serious commentary is from former Florida Alligator editor Ron Sachs: Stephen Colbert has his own take on events:
“Beyond the Pale”
If you truly love or hate something, you spoof it. Thus the great mockumentaries This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind. Now we have a mockumentary on academe: Beyond the Pale. It’ll be shown next month at the Austin Film Festival. It will also be shown free next Thursday (September 27) 7 pm at […]
Vi8gra for ur tests
In response to the growing arguments over the Miller-McKeon Title II proposal (i.e., encouragement of performance pay), Eduwonk (Andy Rotherham) writes … until education becomes a field that is comfortable with the idea of performance, it’s a field that is in some trouble. This may say something about my spam filter, but that phrase brought up images […]
Of promotions and cranberry wine
I just finished the draft of my promotion-packet narratives. The whole thing is due at the end of the month, and apart from proofreading, there are other tasks to complete: Collect information on journals and my books’ publishers for my chair Collect and confirm grant information Check for consistency between tenure packet and cv Create […]
Unable to celebrate tomorrow
By Sherman Dorn on September 18, 2007
Tomorow’s my long day this semester, which is darned unfortunately, because otherwise I’d be worshipping the 18th letter of the alphabet for Talk Like a Pirate Day (song) (lyrics). I’m sure that there’s a good education policy joke in there somewhere, but it’s too late for my brain to figure it out.
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