I am too tired to have the prose come to me easily, but the recollections and connections do not stop coming to me. If I keep working on this text it will become a substantial piece. Venues for it besides the CHE could be Academe, IHE, Baton Rouge Advocate, maybe Profession. I am convinced these things … More Notes for still further revision
Now the students say I am the smartest professor ever. Really I just cobbled that class together. First, I got some teaching strategies from The Compleat Academic and Arnulfo Ramírez, and a course concept and some materials from myself and Tulane University. Then, I got some more grist for the course concept from Momo, and some … More On why I am so intelligent
Paulo Freire is in this post if you read closely. Axé.
I have found the best Mycra Pac raincoat and it is the long parachute coat, but the one I saw was more amazing than this one as it was reversible to a mesh printed with an amazing comic book and bordered in black. It has a drawstring around the hem. It is futuristic looking indeed … More Comic book print
Here is the ponencia colectiva Arturo Serrano Plaja read at a momentuous 1937 congress, that Vallejo attended. It is a very interesting document, an incredibly interesting document, but I was looking for things by Arturo because I remember a poem of his that went something like this: España está hispanizada ¿Quién la deshispanizará? El deshispanizador que … More Spain, Hispanized
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More What I have been writing. Revised. I should perhaps use it as an opinion piece for the CHE. Do you think?
Learn all of Shakespeare. Start talking that way and remember many good quotations and their contexts. Get into the administration of the university and comment upon it in early modern English, using the quotations as well. Lily-livered boy! … My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. I think, but dare not speak. Axé.
“Make thick my blood.” Axé.
This evening my mother and I were looking at the book on her father’s family. She has the book, and I called it up from Hathitrust. On page 3 you can see a picture of their 1300-1659 seat, Holloway Court, in Kent. The family motto was spes alit agricolam. Prior to 1225 there is no … More Thain, thegn, thane
At the top of the list of things I am not going to try to do any more is cutting corners on teaching. I do not like the phrase cut corners anyway, it is one of those Pollyannaish phrases from Home Economics, and I have heard far too much about the importance of doing it … More Coisas que não vou fazer mais
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