tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post8859511203297348186..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: By Request...A RYS Flashback on End of the Semester Nuttiness. From 2007.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83254194948225284802016-05-04T23:25:36.093-04:002016-05-04T23:25:36.093-04:00Hereinafter the office known as Center for Touchy-...Hereinafter the office known as Center for Touchy-Feely and Kumbaya (CFTFAK).Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-10320939105487038592016-05-04T21:27:38.386-04:002016-05-04T21:27:38.386-04:00Many instructors feel compelled to squeeze in thos...<i>Many instructors feel compelled to squeeze in those extra gems of knowledge on the last day. There are, however, more productive ways you can spend your time. One suggestion is a last day of class party.</i><br><br>OK, let's extrapolate. If a party is more productive than extra gems of knowledge on the last day, then it is also more productive on the next-to-last day, and also on the Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13459030378287208912016-05-04T17:28:46.914-04:002016-05-04T17:28:46.914-04:00I love the dismissive "extra gems of knowledg...I love the dismissive "extra gems of knowledge." Yeah. The field of study to which I have dedicated my entire adult life, think about nearly every waking moment and some sleeping ones, that's just a collection of pretty baubles. Prof Chiltepinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24332400501702107222016-05-04T09:44:19.106-04:002016-05-04T09:44:19.106-04:00Just do it and put it in your evaluation under ret...Just do it and put it in your evaluation under retention initiatives. Then take a shower to feel clean again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635502687662919820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62522707537928088182016-05-03T20:30:14.300-04:002016-05-03T20:30:14.300-04:00We have a CFTL: it's called "every depart...We have a CFTL: it's called "every department at the university." <br /><br />I'm not sure what that says about us or about places that actually have them.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36508032236236437762016-05-03T14:57:28.808-04:002016-05-03T14:57:28.808-04:00Well, it's certainly cheaper than paying the t...Well, it's certainly cheaper than paying the teaching (i.e. mostly contingent) faculty a wage commensurate with the centrality of the their duties to the university's mission, and easier than persuading graduate faculty to treat their TAs as apprentices rather than underlings whose job it is to make sure the undergraduates (and their work) are both seen and heard as little as possible. <Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14802876220466851942016-05-03T14:11:44.695-04:002016-05-03T14:11:44.695-04:00Center for Teaching and Learning, because, well, w...Center for Teaching and Learning, because, well, we stopped worrying about that at the college years ago.Reg W.noreply@blogger.com