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You appear to have spelled “traitor” as “traiter” on the poster in the cartoon. Elon fired the person in charge…
Kate - I think you're right. But I bet that Condoleeza Rice could have had a pretty good chance at…
When I was a kid all pop and beer came in glass bottles. You'd save them and then, after fighting…
There's a new word in the corporate lingo in my company: "globalization". Management defines it as undergoing a strategic transformation…
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Category Archives: Education
Cartoon: G.O.P. Approved History
Welcome back to artist R. E. Ryan! This is the second cartoon he’s done with me; I certainly hope there’ll be more. In 2019, the New York Times published The 1619 Project, an anthology of essays and other works arguing … Continue reading
The Financial Calamity That Is The Teaching Profession
The paragraphs below are from an article in The Atlantic by Alia Wong with the same title I’ve given to this post. I’m just going to let them speak for themselves. Teachers have never been particularly well paid, but in recent decades … Continue reading
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From Guernica: “The Teaching Class,” by Rachel Riederer
This is a really interesting and thought-provoking essay that I think anyone concerned about the state of higher education should read. Riederer makes a complex argument. Here are some excerpts: The rise of adjunct labor in universities is also a student … Continue reading
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Just One Complaint While I am Doing End-of-Semester Grading
So I’m sitting in my office earlier today, waiting for students to hand in their final assignments, which for some include assignments on which I gave them extensions. One student, who has done barely a stitch of work all semester, … Continue reading
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It’s Nice to Know Someone’s Doing Higher Education Right
Rebecca Schuman has a piece up on Slate, “Doing Higher Ed Right,” in which she writes about Iowa State University, which is “the only—only—institution of higher learning in the entire country to spend the last eight years hiring full-time faculty … Continue reading
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South Carolina “Fun Home” Censorship Update
(To listen to the best bit, I’d recommend advancing to the 17 minute mark.) After the South Carolina House passed a bill cutting $52,000 from the College of Charleston for including Alison Bechdel’s memoir Fun Home in a campus reading … Continue reading
Your "ten reasons" cartoon left out a major reason why some of us buy full-size cars: Because we're taller than…