I know, I am obsessed, I want this to crystallize just enough and I want to send it somewhere. I have not fully figured out where to send it, so I keep fiddling with it. I want it out. Since I resigned from that committee I have become acutely aware of all the shock and … More Meilleur encore
…is that last year when there was conservative community outcry against the LGBT Studies program, the university president published a very good response. The academic senate passed a resolution supporting this letter and commending the president for having written it. The following year, under new leadership, the senate, apparently at the direction of some other … More Another point to be made
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
Paulo Freire is in this post if you read closely. Axé.
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.
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
Coldhearted Scientist: “Free writing” is just stewing and will only ruin your thought process unless you have already decided what you are doing. Until such time as your first line comes to you unannounced, and you know what the content of your last paragraph is going to be, you are much better off just meditating … More Un diálogo importantísimo entre expertas
As we know, I am against free writing. I favor recreational or nonacademic writing, not free writing, for practice, and research notes and abstracts, not rambling “prewriting” to gather my thoughts. I became aware of free writing as a requirement too late, and I have never learned to use it — I find it exhausting … More On the origins of the “free writing” cult
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 El texto, escrito, jamás será vencido
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