a lifelong repulsion at branding, including (especially?) branding myself
You and me both. Just thinking about it makes me want to retch, it's utterly visceral.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Higher ed: the sunk cost fallacy.
(holy shit)
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 2 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Unless yours is the winning ticket.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
every time i get an email from the administration about plans for the fall i have a panic attack. really excited to be at the top of my pedagogical game in seven weeks.
― maura, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
have they told you what game you'll be playing yet
― j., Wednesday, 8 July 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
omg maura super otmi have not been told anything either
honestly i am sort of glad i taught over the summer bc it has given me time to better acclimate to the online environment and prepare at least one course that i can teach again in the fall without sweating the living shit out of it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
seeing an email from our university president describing protocols for the return of students to campus in fall. re dorms, "beds in shared rooms will be separated by at least 6 feet" LOL GET THE FUCK OUT
― marcos, Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
Unbelievable. These people are living in a fantasy world
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
i don’t know what it’ll be like. i always have a hybrid class anyway but i do not feel good about going to campus. but if i don’t teach how can i afford my $500/month insurance premium, lolmeanwhile at purdue:
I feel safer already. This will most definitely be fine. pic.twitter.com/Ay99KyEvzH— David Atkinson (@drdaveatkinson) July 9, 2020
― maura, Friday, 10 July 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
Jeez Louise.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 10 July 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
what the f
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Friday, 10 July 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
https://movie-fanatic-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--qMWTMzeD--/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1408553550/naked-gun-full-body-condom.png
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 10 July 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
lol
― maura, Friday, 10 July 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
i'm gonna miss all the radical left indoctrination training and meetings :(
Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2020
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
xpost - it's a good thing air stops circulating completely about 7 feet above the floor level. that's a foolproof plan!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/opinion/liberal-arts-college-covid.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Ctrl+F = "tuition" 0/0
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 13 July 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
ohio state had a meeting today. here are some notes. notable: if a student tests positive their classes have to quarantine for two weeks.
I took some notes. pic.twitter.com/sZGTfzCAtT— Elena Cruz-López (@elenacruz_lopez) July 13, 2020
― maura, Monday, 13 July 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
not even reading that, it will give me a panic attackesp if the first sentences are "we don't really know..."
aggggghhhhhhhhh
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
Cool time today dealing with a Canvas issue that others have had in the past, and which hasn't been solved by Canvas. I go to the support chat, and am placed at the back of the queue. Fine. I leave the computer to do work and walk the dog, checking the queue all the while, etc.
Eventually, I am working and realize the laptop has gone to sleep. I log back on and lo and behold, my session has timed out, and I'm now at the back of the queue again...for a problem that shouldn't be a problem in the first place.
If this is the future, then fuck the future, let it all burn.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
ugh fuck canvas
this week sucks so much
i hate everything
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Also, a query: anyone here quit an adjunct job a few days into the semester?
These fucks have increased course caps due to some fuckery and I'm now at 45 students.....and getting paid $4500 for the semester. So my question is: do I make things easy on myself and just give everyone A's, collect the check, and never work for this school again? Or should I just quit? While it would be hard to take the hit, I am ready to take one suffering over another at this juncture.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
ha ha I submitted my expression of interest in a voluntary redundancy last week
and table that is unacceptable, negotiate or quit!
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
So my question is: do I make things easy on myself and just give everyone A's, collect the check, and never work for this school again?
seems to me to be a win (you)/win (students)/lose (the school) which sounds cool
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, talked with a number of people, including one of my childhood friends who is a union leader at the school, and I'm going to go with the making things easy on myself option. Also seems like some more major labor action might be in the works, so I'd like to stick around for that.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
this roundup of covid reactions at universities made me feel both despondent and less alonehttps://annehelen.substack.com/p/between-fked-and-a-hard-place
― maura, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
I’ve got 34 students in a comp 2 writing class which amounts to 8.5 hrs of grading (at a modest 15 min per paper) per draft per assignment. Adjuncts are paid $2,000 for this class. This thread stresses me out in the absolute worst way.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
I agree w the “giving everyone A” option provided that the material in the class is not going to be essential to their future jobs or classes. I feel differently about shorting developmental writing students than I do about music appreciation students. They’ll live without remembering what the elements of music are but it’s hard to make it when you can’t write a coherent paragraph.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
It is a class on short fiction. Like can you read and talk about a New Yorker story? Okay? Cool.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
(though only 30% of the stories I used were in the NYer, but the basic thrust of it is that)
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
Oh ok! A’s for everyone!! The lit class I’ve been assigned this semester is basically that only it’s called “American Literature and Culture”
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Still total bullshit that 45 students are crammed in there. I saw a post on a fb group I’m in with a woman who is teaching a class with 232 students enrolled. No wonder people think college is a waste of time and a ripoff. 232!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Has to be automated and with multiple TAs at that point.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
But yeah, that's not learning.
Definitely not, or not the place for me at least!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.ajc.com/news/university-of-alabama-orders-faculty-to-keep-quiet-about-outbreak/7ZAHSQPNDRBINBEF3A6YAVMPRE/
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Sunday, 30 August 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
“During that time, we encountered many students who have been exposed since returning to campus, particularly in the Greek system,” said Dr. Ricky Friend, dean of college of community health sciences
what a surprise!
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 30 August 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
As I mentioned on a other thread, my institution is 20% of the cases in our metro right now. So they've pivoted to online classes for the next two weeks...
Basically, the administration is avoiding making the safe and ethical call to cancel in-person classes for the whole semester because after a certain date, parents can't get back their room and board deposits. As long as the idea of in-person classes returning is put forward and the school can blame students for spread, which has already happened, then they're covering their asses.
To say that I am ready for this semester to be over and to never work for this corrupt institution ever again is an understatement.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 31 August 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
Student posted incendiary, offensive, unfounded, and racist things on discussion board. In my haste, I simply deleted the posts without screen-shotting them— there is a policy in my syllabus that dehumanizing language will not be tolerated, and this was certainly that. Now incredibly nervous about potential blowback, though doubting there will be any...if there is, will simply bring up anything that happens to administrators.
I did note everything that was written in a separate email to myself, but then it is student's word against mine.
I'm not getting paid enough to babysit racists.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Well. I've been offered a redundancy and hope it will be a pretty solid deal. Now to think about life after academia at age 50.
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 30 October 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
Are you a full-time tenured faculty member or the equivalent wherever you are?
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 30 October 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
It's that time of the year when the student emails begging for grade adjustments start piling up.
Anyone feeling more amenable to give students the benefit of the doubt this semester due to the circumstances?
For example, I have a student who has done...D-level work all semester when it has been turned in, but she also lost one of her best friends to Covid and has been working full time. She needs a passing grade to graduate on time. I mean, fuck, I'm almost out of the academy at this point, should I just give everyone an 'A'?
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Sorry Euler, missed your question, but yes I am and no I didn't take the redundancy. God knows what's coming though, the Australian sector is f-u-c-k-e-d.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/australia-universities-education-job-ready-scott-morrison-covid
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
and table are you able to offer some kind of supplementary task to let the student demonstrate that she actually does reach the standard? because otherwise a grade bump is an insult to the folks who did the work and reached the standard. Unless the standard itself is arbitrary or poorly assessed.
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
should I just give everyone an 'A'?
Does this fit your philosophy of the role of grading in education? It's a surprisingly complicated question.
My personal sense is that during classes letter grades are mainly an incentive/reward to do the work of learning. imo, the real controlling question for the educator as classes end is pass/fail. But if at the start of classes you set specific expectations about how final grades would be determined, then it seems like you need to honor your own announced structure.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
pass em all imo
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
just make sure your own ass is covered
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
nb don't take advice from me
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Several Canadian universities have now switched to a pass/fail system, which I think was the correct call.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
I'm going to leave it up to the student...if they can get the rest of the work in by Saturday, then they might eke out a D. But I'm not chasing them around like I've done in the past.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
sounds perfect
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link