89 Matching Annotations
  1. Apr 2018
  2. Mar 2018
    1. It is also possible that Dean’s Council will propose that teaching required general education courses and directing/facilitating immersive experiences for students should be recognized in a new model of acknowledging faculty workload.

      What does this mean?

    2. The CCEE will be responsible for making and maintaining partnerships (not-for-profit, corporate, government) and providing infrastructure for experiences (logistics, advertising, scheduling, transportation and travel, recordkeeping) and other forms of faculty suppor

      Though this sentence acts as if it were so, these offices do not all do the same thing. (Classic faculty: it's not us, so it's all the same.) Supporting academic programs (Global, Civic) is not the same as helping students get jobs after college.

    3. her bodies that are central to experiential education,

      What other bodies?

      How is experiential education (if that's a thing) more related to professional development than other things, like, say, writing or thinking?

    4. the General Education program would b

      Does this completely replace the current requirements? It's a radical switch, if so, by a committee with only a few faculty after a few months of secret meetings.

    5. This model is not detailed enough at this point to move towards creating an implementation strategy;

      But let's vote on it in May.

      The devil, as anyone who lived through the last version of this knows, is in the details.

    6. outcome that is more likely with a smaller, more focused general education program. I

      What's the point of this? Sounds like throwing small majors a bone. For the record, we didn't see a drop in double-majors when we increased the size of GE.

  3. Feb 2018
  4. Jan 2017
    1. The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity

      No one comments on any of the religious comments in this speech, all by a man who has never shown a sign of religiosity in his entire life.

    2. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

      This is an absurdly bleak picture.

  5. Jun 2016