By Tracy Mitrano. My mother died as the result of a surgical accident, a nicked bowel with a single stitch from an ovarian biopsy that proved negative. Nine months in ICU, six major surgeries, a year and two days later, she gave up. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Thirty-five years ago when I graduated college and set my career sites on higher education, I wanted to be a college president. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. From the Celts, and the home to some of the greatest lyrical writers in the Western world, comes the notion of thin places. “A place where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin. A thin place is where one can walk in two worlds - the worlds are fused together, knitted loosely where the differences can be discerned or tightly where the two worlds become one.” Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. My hand to G-d, I included a sentence at the end of a draft of my last blog about the Russian hack of the DNC servers, “And Trump is falling for it hook, line and sinker” that I deleted before I sent the final to be posted. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Three tech-related headlines caught my eye this week. Google is behind Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing. Yahoo is selling its core business to Verizon. Russia figured in the Democratic National Committee hack … with a possible implication of a Russia connection to WikiLeaks. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Mark the Second Circuit decision in the Microsoft case as a turning point. The win for Microsoft is a victory for U.S. innovation, manufacturing and Internet companies, privacy advocates, and legal due process. Read more...
By John Warner. It seems that many who read the “welcome” letter from University of Chicago Dean of Students, John (Jay) Ellison, were pleased to read a strong statement defending core academic values: freedom of expression and inquiry without fear of censorship, as well as “rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement,” including a refusal to “support” trigger warnings or “condone” safe spaces. Read more...By John Warner. In their own self-interest, departments and faculty should strongly advocate to pay their adjunct faculty as high a per class wage as possible. Read more...By John Warner. As a college instructor, I believe that the most important thing I can do for students is to make them uncomfortable. By John Warner. I received a message to my school email with a subject line asking about my cell phone policy. I thought maybe this person had read one of my posts about my struggles over finding a policy that works with my particular pedagogical values. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
