February 2005
Friday 25 February 2005
- Recommending Without Reservation - David Galef's "My 57th Recommendation Letter This Week" really cracked me up...a parody of graduate school recommendation letters that really speaks a lot of truth. It's easy to get cynical about the graduate school advising process, but I genuinely favor helping students pursue graduate studies if they're dedicated to the... (13:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Thursday 24 February 2005
- Professors of Practice - I read a news article at Inside Higher Ed today, called "Holding Out for Tenure," which talks about how some schools are dealing with instructors who are employed full-time or nearly so, but not given the opportunity for tenure. Roughly 34% of all full-time faculty are not tenured or tenure-track.... (10:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 20 February 2005
- Confronting Change - Just passing along some enlightening reflections on change I've spotted on the web recently: John Spurlock reflects on how one can't escape the problem of race when teaching American history, even when far away in the classrooms of Montenegro. (He also just posted a good article on European Educational Reform).... (11:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 18 February 2005
- All for One (Grade) - A few weeks ago my Literary Criticism class was discussing Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" and the notion of the intentional fallacy. Along the way, the idea of ownership of writing came up and so I asked them a question that threw them for the proverbial loop: "What... (12:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Tuesday 15 February 2005
- Cut Up Poetry - I don't subscribe to the Wall St. Journal, but one of the mailing lists I'm on (for the Science Fiction Poetry Association) is discussing an article that appeared in a recent edition about a high school teacher who clips out articles from the business pages and has students compose love... (17:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)