Faculty
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Why All The Melancholy?
Now that graduation is in the rearview mirror, the summer can begin. Since I work at a SLAC, most of my fellow professors are disappearing into the mist, not returning until mid-August. In the last few days leading up to… Continue reading
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I Hate AI Until it Works for Me.
The debate about generative AI in the education sphere is overdone. I don’t care about it. I don’t care if my students use it because it is relatively easy to sniff out. In many respects, I don’t even want to… Continue reading
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Why is New Leadership Always Like this?
We recently installed a new provost after the previous one decided that life was better in the mountains. The administration told us that a search committee would find a replacement. However, the administration ended up promoting the assistant provost instead.… Continue reading
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Tales From the (Mental) Institution #2: Military Veterans are Scary People
During my first all-faculty meeting in the school auditorium, there was a presentation about a new program the university was introducing for returning veterans. All told, it meant that there was the possibility that an influx of nontraditional students with… Continue reading
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Tales From the (Mental) Institution #1: The English Bulldog
Dr. Elson Carpenter was a senior member of the English department. The reason is that she probably annoyed everybody else into finding work somewhere else. I never had any direct contact with Carpenter, but her presence in faculty meetings was… Continue reading
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Why Bother Knowing What Classes I Need to Take?
This article will sound like I am waving my cane at the clouds, but I am perplexed by how students seemingly don’t grasp the importance of registration. They come to my office and have no clue about what classes they… Continue reading
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I Hate Playing the Game: The Academic Conference
Due to a plague spreading through my household, I decided to provide an excerpt from my novel. It explains why I am not the biggest fan of conferences. Enjoy or don’t. I don’t care. I was always told in graduate… Continue reading
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This Article Was Hijacked By My Last Faculty Meeting.
I know that I will never have the perfect classroom of prepared students eager to learn and that we will have a great discussion about course material. I am at peace with that. However, I am discovering more and more… Continue reading
Failing Upwards 