What I have been writing. Revised. I should perhaps use it as an opinion piece for the CHE. Do you think?

08/05/2013

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?

Things to do

07/05/2013

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.

Thain, thegn, thane

07/05/2013

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

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05/05/2013

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