That LaBlanca Dapper One-Piece Striped Maillot is now out in size 6 and more sizes are sure to go. I should not buy a thing but it fits and I wonder, should I take one before my size is out? I was hoping to get one at an end of summer sale, but there may … More Resisting consumerism, or, I will fill my tooth
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 How inflammatory is this?
It is from 1940. I am told that it therefore: (a) lacks modernity (it is old, so it must be antiquated), (b) is unnecessary (we all believe in these principles, so there is no need to write them down), and at the same time (c) is unaffordable (back in the thriving economy of the 1930s … More That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
Remember, if I publish one to five paragraphs like this locally, everyone will know to which meetings I refer and of whom I speak. Current paragraph one: 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 … More Watch my tone
Since my colleague is boasting in class about knowing Arturo Pérez-Reverte I will dramatize here my encounter with Camilo José Cela. This happened a long time ago and that Emeritus Professor did not realize it was happening as he did not know I could understand as much Spanish as I could … or that, given … More Camilo José Cela
My survey of Spanish literature, where Clarissa and Jonathan both gave Skype lectures, is composed of sweet people but they are lost. I have been attempting to explain what the second Spanish Republic was for ten weeks and the students still do not understand. What the Franco dictatorship was. What the relation of the current … More In which my Spanish literature class is one of the worst I have ever had
I wrote: Later when I have time, I will try to consider methods of using my plan, or even a Boicean style plan, to address problems that do not have to do with the low level problems he addresses, which appear to be not liking to write, not having any experience writing, not being organized, … More When I say “reeducation,” one of the elements to which I refer is Boice
xdanne: Boice encourages not word count but “# of typed page equivalents” which are then charted in relation to “”# of hrs. spent writing”. You thus get a neat little productivity graph which becomes a writing goal in and of itself. I too dislike the dog-training aspect of behavioral approaches. I don’t want to tell … More An anti-Boicean dialogue with xdanne
…due to lack of space, but it was fun: In a recent meeting on teaching, experts opined to my colleagues and me on the evils of lecture courses, which they termed “one-way delivery.” Most of us never taught that way and have never been taught that way; those Power Pointing for us, however, and only … More Cut from my opinion piece
Some people are learning not to speak up and in academia, this is typically how one is coached: do not say anything, all you will do is ruin your credibility as a reasonable person. I disagree and I think people should learn that to speak up, you do not have to be outraged or impassioned. … More On speaking up
