Lots of flavors all in one post:
- Are you sick of family emergencies and rogue computers as explanations for absences and late work? Carolyn Foster Segal has a great essay categorizing student excuses, "The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe." I'm thinking about making my own students read this one!
- According to Rob Jenkins, a regular contributer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, administrators come in two flavors, those who trust faculty and those who don't. For the analysis, read "A Matter of Trust."
- What does your office door say about you? Can students tell if you are an easy grader or have a sense of humor? In "Realities of the Decanal Suite," one dean contrasts the personality that his faculty office door could express to the joylessness of his new door in the administrative suite.
- Before you visit Amazon.com to shop for a book, you might want to read "The Ethics of Technology," a piece that explains the appropriate use of your office computer.
- At Confessions of a Community College Dean, Dean Dad bemoans the tenured professor who does a bad job but has yet to commit a fireable offense.
- Angry Professor visits RateYourProfessor.com and joins the insurgency.
- Rate Your Students plays fair, giving students the opportunity to voice their own thoughts on the modern classroom. Here are some recent goodies:
A couple of posts ago, I noted that Valencia ranks 23 on the list of top 30 community colleges. Paul Glastris, editor in chief of The Washington Monthly [the magazine responsible for the rankings], appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss what should matter at a school. Here is this week's video fun:
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