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Saturday, May 9th, 2020

The only undergraduate journalism project at Hunter awarded a Ford Foundation Grant for a multimedia ethnic journalism project and a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

Protected: Draft: Open Letter to City University of New York Chancellor James B. Milliken Who Recently Announce That He Was Stepping Down at the End of This Semester

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

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The Latest from the Massachusetts Healthy Workplace Bill Advocates

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Ending sexual harassment at work means ending workplace bullying, says today’s LA Times

For the first time since the Harvey Weinstein scandal became public, a major publication made the connection between sexual harassment and workplace bullying, even noting the workplace anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill and its author David Yamada.

Read entire article here.

This writer networks with healthy workplace advocates in other states, especially the East Coast and especially Massachusetts. 

The Workplace Bullying Institute 2017 National Survey

Wednesday, March 29th, 2017

By Mike Schlicht [mikes@nyhwa.org]

The Workplace Bullying Institute has created a Gofundme page to raise money to update the national trends on workplace bullying in the United States.

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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education – Part 1

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

Waiting on response.

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Knows How to Throw a Party

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

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March Madness: Ignorance Isn’t Bliss

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

“You’re anal,” concluded a student in one of my writing classes after I told her I wasn’t accepting her late class assignment. It’s clear in the class guidelines that first drafts of story assignments must be turned in on time or the grade for the assignment is F. But she seemed to believe, for reasons I didn’t understand, that I would overlook her serious omission. Well, said a student in another news writing class, we feel that the class is disorganized. We show up we and we never know what to expect.

These were the most notable comments in the face-to-face meetings I scheduled with my student writers in March. This semester, like the others, many didn’t read the syllabus nor the assignment guidelines and many came to class unprepared. Some can’t or won’t follow simple directions.

They, like many before them, Do the DUH a lot.

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The Perils of Bovine Texting

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Two students taking Media 386, a journalism ethics course, last semester had their final grades reduced by one grade because of repeated violations of class guidelines about text messaging. Both were whining that they were treated unfairly. They  were not identified but one actually did a whine-whine on the WORD’s facebook page: She was responding to my description of the other student because she believed I was discussing her “case. When I informed her that I wasn’t, she refused to believe me. In a sense, she outed herself in a public forum!

The other notified me that she was appealing her grade (which is not a bad strategy in a department with the most sordid grading scams at Hunter). But never mind that. Below is a metaphysical rejoinder to them about the perils of texting inappropriately.

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It’s Been One of Those Semesters

Friday, December 31st, 2010

What’s left to say? The consequences of using a cell phone in my classes were clearly stated this semester. Students were advised. Enlightened. Warned. Caveats to the left, caveats to the right, caveats right down the center of the class in Room 504 Hunter North, where Journalism Ethics and News Responsibility was taught. Started with about 35 students, eventually whittled to 24.

All advisements and enlightenments and warnings and caveats delivered with deliberation: F for the class after an initial warning. Yet, when it came time for the big F, I chickened out and, instead, took off one grade of the final grade. Two students this semester.

Both, of course, provided cheesy excuses, like the one below: 6:48-6:50? Not my recollection. More like smirking and gee whiz and all shucks. A mid 20s student.

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It’s Been One of Those Semesters – 1

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Bitch-ee … Bitch-ee … Bitch-ee …

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