RB: Requires a separate page. Gets one in Part VI.
LM: Blindsided by personal, family issues. INC.
End Part V
Posts Tagged ‘undergraduate education’
MEDP 299.47 Pushback, Fall, 2009 – Part V
Friday, February 5th, 2010PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part III
Friday, February 5th, 2010
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part II
Friday, February 5th, 2010Pushback can range from physical threats & menacing behavior to moderate passive aggressive behavior (such as, I dare you to make me do the assignments) to the negligible. Extreme, never to be tolerated; moderate, up to a certain level until it threatens to fuel rebellious anticipation of 30-40Ps; negligible, hardly worth mentioning (a little slack shouldn’t hurt but don’t tell that to 30-40Ps and the Colleagues who support them).
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part I
Friday, February 5th, 2010
AKA Feature Writing
In many ways, this was a typical D:F/M advanced news writing class. The students were talented, all could write. Yet … !
PUSHBACK – Resistance Is Futile But Anticipated
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010This is an introduction of sorts to a six-part series. A few years ago, I invited the New York Time’s first Ombudsman to my journalism ethics/responsibility class. That position, now occupied by Clark Hoyt, is primarily known now as the New York Times Public Editor. I’m speculating that the presence of a Public Editor is more preferable to Ombudsman which sounds akin to a lawman enforcing the law in a lawless community (at least, that’s how I imagine the NYT natives perceive the position when it was announced in the wake of the Jason Blair scandal and other journalistic ignominies which didn’t get as much attention but contributed to marring the public image of the Times).
Hunter College: #2 “Best Value” Public College
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Sent to Hunter Faculty Via Email from President Jennifer Raab:
I am delighted to announce that Hunter has been named the #2 “Best Value” public college in the country for 2010, according to The Princeton Review and USA Today. This is the second year in a row that Hunter has ranked among the top 10.
A Flurry of Posts in the Waiting While I Finish Off Final Grades for This Semester – Part II
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Rushing to get final grades completed but, again, it’s SOS no matter how much or how little of class assignments: The A’s get A, the B’s get B, the C’s get C and the F’s get F. D is rare.
Thursday, November 12, 2009, Weird: Part I
Friday, November 13th, 2009Fall, 2009, MEDP 299.47: One of the Best Feature Writing Classes with Talent in Recent Memory.
But …
D:F/M Faculty Meeting, October 7: Tower of Babble
Monday, October 12th, 2009If institutions of higher learning desire academic honesty, they must be institutions of obvious integrity, places where students, faculty, and administrators seek truth and wisdom and technical expertise in an environment marked by trust, honesty, respect, fairness, responsibility, and courage. — Peg Hogan, Former President, The Center for Academic Integrity.
The Fifth Circle of Hell: Resistance Is Futile
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Prescient signs: The smack, smack, smacking of students smacking the wall.
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