By Oronte. I welcome back poet Sean Singer, whose previous review at the blog was here. --Churm
Abide. Jake Adam York. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Review by Sean Singer. Read more...
24 mai 2014
24 mai 2014
Written Words, Aloud
By Oronte. Well, teaching. Grading. Theses. Office hours. Helping run a program. Conflict resolution. Visiting writers. National conference. University lit mag. Graduation. Publishing project soon to be announced. Kids.
Yes, but what else have I been up to? Did a mini-tour for the new book around our spring break, reading and signing in the Florida Panhandle, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Houston, and Austin. Read more...
24 mai 2014
It's About Time and Tide
By G. Rendell. There's a set of pictures currently circulating the Web. Artistically done, they depict "what some classic American city scenes would look like today", given twelve feet of sea level rise (a moderate estimate given the widely anticipated collapse of Antarctic glaciers). If you're Facebook acquaintances with anyone even softly focused on climate change, you've probably already seen at least one of these 'shopped photos. And I have absolutely no doubt that many of them will make their way into slide decks for introductory courses on the subject. Read more...
24 mai 2014
The Largest MOOC in the Universe
By Rosemarie Emanuele. One of the topics in math that fascinates me the most is the idea of infinity. What intrigues me the is that there are several ideas of infinity; the idea of infinity out in any direction, as well as the idea of infinity between two values on a number line. I found myself thinking of these concepts of infinity this past week as I reflected on a thought presented in a TV show I have been watching. Read more...24 mai 2014
Halfway Through
By Susan O'Doherty. Ben finished his last class of the year yesterday. Being Ben, he still has a few assignments to finish up, but he is basically done, and on the whole he has done really well. His papers have been thoughtful, original and well received, and he has excelled in his practica in both music and audio engineering. Read more...24 mai 2014
The Adjunct Adjustment Act
By Matt Reed. Jennifer Dalby (@injenuity) had a great line on Twitter this weekend. She noted that the Federal TAACCCT grant -- possibly the worst acronym of the decade -- provides funds to retrain workers who have been displaced by global trade and to place them into fields in which they’re likelier to be able to make an adult living. But the very retraining provided is likely to be provided by adjuncts, who themselves are badly underpaid. She suggested a TAACCCT grant -- presumably with a better acronym -- for adjuncts. Call it the Adjunct Adjustment Act. Read more...24 mai 2014
The First Base Coach Problem
By Matt Reed. In thinking over the story of the dean at Saskatchewan who was fired for publicly disagreeing with his president, I thought about first-base coaches. In baseball, the manager usually sits in the dugout throughout the game. But when a team is batting, it dispatches other coaches to stand by first and third bases. Read more...24 mai 2014
Walla Walla Wows World
By Matt Reed. I was raised on Dr. Seuss. Sometimes it shows. I’ve enjoyed the name “Walla Walla” since childhood. When I lived in New Jersey, I ran across a convenience store called “Wawa.” (There’s a town in North Jersey called Mahwah. I don’t know if there’s a Mahwah Wawa, but there should be.) The Princeton Wawa was located near a shuttle train the locals called the Dinky. Educated adults would say “you catch the Dinky by the Wawa.” (I am not making this up.) Putting all of those together, if we imagined Wawa expanding westward, and a shuttle train popping up in the right location, we could have the Walla Walla Wawa Dinky. Read more...24 mai 2014
The Study I’d Like to See
By Matt Reed. I’m hoping that someone has already done this, but if not, it would be incredibly useful if someone did. Education doctorate students, I’m looking at yoooouuuu…College administrators everywhere are faced consistently with difficult budget decisions. In some cases they’re driven by flat or declining enrollments; in some cases they’re driven by cuts in state support; in some they’re the fallout of unfunded mandates; and in some they’re the predictable side effect of low productivity growth relative to the rest of the economy. Read more...
24 mai 2014
The Trial and Triumphs of Interdisciplinarity
By Liz Homan. Interdisciplinarity is a hip thing these days. I can’t begin to count the number of interdisciplinary workshops, institutes, grants, and fellowships that have come across my email inbox or that I have applied for during my four years of graduate school. I even chose my graduate program because I wanted to work at the intersection of English and Education – and my program, a joint program, was quite literally the only program in the country that placed an equal emphasis on both. Read more...
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