tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post535917179330601175..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Proffie Cancellations Continue in the Tweeter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54837930431178531432015-08-30T15:08:42.583-04:002015-08-30T15:08:42.583-04:00Hiram, I teach at a similar place. Over a decade ...Hiram, I teach at a similar place. Over a decade here and I haven't taken a sick day, because CLASSES MUST BE COVERED AND CANNOT BE CANCELLED. Which means tracking down one of my over-loaded colleagues and dumping my work on them. Regardless of whether that is actually in the interests of student learning. Oh, and remember that the institution is ONE BIG FAMILY. Maybe I need to take some of Antsy Academic Arthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11006693109291622966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79561785280614742522015-08-29T03:49:45.514-04:002015-08-29T03:49:45.514-04:00Well said. I am already treated like a baby by my ...Well said. I am already treated like a baby by my bosses. If I were to skip or cancel a class, a wild flurry of activity begins. There'd be meetings, I tell you, MEETINGS! I'd be reminded that I'm required by the State, by God, by someone, that I was SUPPOSED to have class at 9 am, and when I didn't the whole of Ohio went off its axis.<br /><br />I don't cancel or miss class. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49840302681271124892015-08-28T22:00:39.541-04:002015-08-28T22:00:39.541-04:00The other downside to this is that at some point a...The other downside to this is that at some point accreditation agencies and/or legislatures are going to get wind of the issue, and then all of us will have to jump through a ridiculous number of hoops every time we want to take the class to the library, or cancel a reasonable number of classes to allow for conferences (which take a much larger amount of time, in total, than the canceled classes,Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44253948259395883282015-08-28T18:20:48.224-04:002015-08-28T18:20:48.224-04:00Yeah, it's true that too many of our colleague...Yeah, it's true that too many of our colleagues get too comfortable with the students' "less class means more fun!" attitudes, self-defeating as they are. The disjunction between "Our tuition pays your salary" and "Hooray, class is canceled!" explains a lot about our current predicament.Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17594620807542643212015-08-28T16:58:43.944-04:002015-08-28T16:58:43.944-04:00from Kimmie:
I appreciate that notion, Jonathan, ...<i>from Kimmie:</i><br /><br />I appreciate that notion, Jonathan, I really do. I'd be more inclined to think you may be right but I have a couple of colleagues who do the same thing fairly regularly. I even have a colleague who turned his 50 minute MWF class into a 50 minute MW class, with Fridays being designated "special consultation days." He stays home, turns his webcam on, andCollege Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47123622593032489292015-08-28T15:26:04.673-04:002015-08-28T15:26:04.673-04:00I wonder how much of this is over-representation -...I wonder how much of this is over-representation - people don't tweet "My history prof never cancels class, even on Fridays" - and how much of the really egregious stuff is even true: not everyone on twitter is a reliable reporter, and students often mishear, misunderstand, garble in transmission to colleagues, and misrepresent for comic effect...Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26585218939653820992015-08-28T12:26:35.622-04:002015-08-28T12:26:35.622-04:00It could be that the "canceled all the Thursd...It could be that the "canceled all the Thursday classes" thing is some sort of effort to run a hybrid course. I have a colleague who sometimes does this. If the class is scheduled to meet twice a week, she will have the students come one day a week, and then do online stuff for the other half of each week's work. The students love it because it means less time in the classroom.<br /Defunct Adjuncthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954331373226016090noreply@blogger.com