I am the most boring teacher, to me
Thank goodness for new "easy to use" programs to record lectures, and we hates it. Hates it. FOREVER! A week ago, this part of Florida saw nine tornadoes on a day of severe thunderstorms, and only a small part of my T-Th morning class came. This Tuesday, another line of severe thunderstorms in the morning. […]
Bill Cronon: a quick note
Like thousands of other historians, I have admired Bill Cronon's scholarship for years and think the Wisconsin GOP was nuts to go after his emails through a public-records request of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the epitome of the solid scholar and far from the evangelizing radical I bet the Wisconsin GOP was hoping […]
Worklife after union chapter leadership
At 12:01 am on Friday, I became the immediate ex-president of the USF chapter of our faculty union, the United Faculty of Florida. My best wishes go to my successor Paul Terry, who works on the USF Polytechnic campus and (I believe) is the first chapter president from a non-Tampa campus at USF. (The faculty […]
Yglesias will cite magnolia blooms if it boosts argument against Libya intervention
A brief break from education writing: This morning’s blog entry by Yglesias argues that intervention in Libya is bad for budget discipline. Wow. After spending so much effort and time to make the case that what matters for the budget is long-term structure, he’s undercut it in 15 minutes of reaching for straws in the […]
Florida House attacks college-teacher tenure, unless you’re the president
Tomorrow, the Florida House K-20 Competitiveness Subcommittee has on its agenda a newly-filed proposed committee bill that would eliminate tenure in the Florida College System. The Florida College System is the set of more than two dozen former community colleges that educate hundreds of thousands of Floridians every year. (California has a three-tier public higher-ed system; […]