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  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. a more optimally organized distribution of responsibilities across faculty and staff.

      Show how.

    3. What are the budgetary implications of this proposed platform?

      This question remains unanswered.

    4. physical development of the CCE

      First mention of this. What does it mean?

    5. Specifics

      This timeline is a joke.

    6. period of extensive discussion

      Is this a joke?

    7. Focused Co-Curricular Programming

      = Student Life will do its job.

    8. President’s Office

      Personnel?

    9. How can these events be used to recruit new students?

      Isn't this supposed to be the starting point of these things?

    10. all faculty and staff would participate in some capacit

      Meaning what exactly?

    11. First-year February

      Does the alliteration drive the timing?

    12. raduate schools

      In sophomore year? Most students don't even have a major.

    13. students participate in

      Graduation requirement? Who's tracking it? How?

    14. touchpoint

      Define.

    15. lumni, parents, industry or similar professionals

      Volunteers? How do we guarantee quality?

    16. CCEEPortfolio

      Where does this live? Who polices it? What if students don't do what we tell them to on it? What will it cost?

    17. a transcript

      Where does this come from?

    18. professional-ready

      Define.

    19. Enrollment costs

      Provide an estimate.

    20. Mini-minor

      Absurd.

    21. Digital

      What's digital about this?

    22. managed by the CCEE,

      Whose job would this be exactly? What fraction FTE?

    23. These experiences will increase

      Provide evidence.

    24. professional knowledge, credentials, or applied skills

      Define professional.

    25. may need to bring additional curricular experiences online to accommodate demand

      Show your work. What's the estimated demand?

    26. eadership position

      Define.

    27. Mentored

      Who's a mentor here? And what does that mean: responsibilities, etc? Ditto for the other mentors in this section.

    28. Short or Long TREC

      So these have to be professional now?

    29. heir professional skills

      Is this academic or professional? The text goes back and forth?

    30. leveraging resource

      Jargon alert!

      But what resources? New expenditures here?

    31. Additional programming resources

      Define. $$$?

    32. Career mentors

      How many new hires?

    33. Support

      Define. How much $?

    34. support

      Define. How much $?

    35. Support

      Define. How much $?

    36. Support

      Define. How much $?

    37. Staffing

      Be specific.

    38. Incentivization

      What does this mean? If they need to incentivize faculty to do this, are they admitting that faculty do not want to?

    39. We expect

      So this is decided?

    40. 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.

    41. eer and experiential efforts are coordinated

      Again, why do these things need to be coordinated? What's the benefit? Educational programs are educational.

    42. 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?

    43. The semina

      Who teaches this? Who enrolls? What is the point of this course? Are we going to replace real content with it?

    44. DREW 300 (0 credits

      How does this work? When do they sign up for it? Is the regitrar's office going to manually input all of these? What could go wrong?

    45. we could create a DREW 300 tag

      Clearly no one understands how our systems of record work.

    46. be presented as part of one of the University-wide events.

      400 presentations a year?

    47. Many students already complete a project of this nature

      Who doesn't? It's so vague as to be meaningless. This is the most milquetoast nonsense so far.

    48. 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.

    49. Foreign Language

      How many?

    50. intercultural knowledge and competence, diversity, and differen

      These are not all the same thing.

    51. ethical reasoning

      Who is qualified to teach this?

    52. cientific and quantitative thinking skills

      This is not what analytical means, FFS.

    53. CEE.

      First mention of this, so it is undefined at this point.

      But how much more staff are they going to need to handle this?

    54. Drew.DREW 200

      Will this get a faculty director like Cermele is for DSEM?

    55. nned timing

      These kids can't plan a major, and we're going to make do this?

    56. team-taught

      What teaching credit would they carry?

    57. teamwork

      Who is qualified to teach this?

    58. ost-college planning process

      Which will have to be created. What does this involve exactly?

    59. renamed

      OMG this is the fourth name for this thing in, what, 10 years?

    60. / DREW 30

      Enrollment? So an actual course?

    61. Extensive faculty development resource

      🐴💩

    62. 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.

    63. Foundational principles

      There is not a single shred of argumentation behind any of this.

    64. should be

      Why?

    65. Co-curricular activities

      Obvious significant overhead for tracking this. Ladder needs things to be courses or entered manually, for example.

    66. tudent cohorts (

      What does this mean? Smaller than year-classes? Majors? Minors? Honors? Civic engagement? Teams? Clubs?

    67. roject of some type.

      What does this mean? What would not qualify under such a vague term?

    68. ndependent or collaborative

      Aren't these opposites? So could we not just say "a project of some type"?

    69. makes a Drew undergraduate education distinctive.

      No, this makes it like every other LAC.

    70. 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.

    71. intercultural

      What does this word mean?

    72. professional portfolio

      What does this mean?

    73. identified by graduate programs and employers

      Any faculty input here?

    74. we cannot build a sustainable Drew on strong recruiting practices alone.

      Begging the question.

  3. Feb 2018
  4. Jan 2017
    1. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you. God bless America.

      God gets the close, as is now traditional.

    2. in the hands of a wealthy minority

      Which he has made his cabinet from.

    3. the same almighty creator

      God again.

    4. We stand at the birth of a new millennium

      A new age? I wonder if the Germans have a word for that.

    5. constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.

      A shot at the Republicans?

    6. we will be protected by God

      God again.

    7. 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.

    8. There is a bit of a ring here of Reagan

      It hits on "My country right or wrong".

    9. Mr. Trump studied

      Mr. Trump didn't write a word of this, you can be sure.

    10. subsidized the armies of other countries

      Says the guy who wants to give more money to Israel.

    11. 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.

    12. This is literally true

      The first half is true, the second half not so much. Many got wealthier, but it was not sufficiently distributed.

  5. Jun 2016