Below, the first two paragraphs of a very long memo in the wake of the November 10, 2010, faculty meeting.
November 14, 2010
Colleagues,
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It Was One of Those Semesters
Monday, January 17th, 2011It’s Been One of Those Semesters
Monday, December 20th, 2010Bedlam at the November 10 D:F/M Faculty Meeting
Above: The Hunter College Chapter Chair of the Professional Staff Congress
Faculty Experience Survey – Uh Oh!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
September, Fall Semester ’09: A Pithy, Early Report
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Feature writing class has been learning that this instructor’s course  — taught as an in-depth writing course — does not match the description of feature writing described by their basic reporting instructor of spring semester 2009 who told them that a feature story was “light” and that features didn’t use summary news leads. Uh oh!
And D:F/M’s journalism effort is back in the stone age. Should the students be told? Should prospective applicants be warned? Colleagues zonked on Zombie Juice? Uh Oh!
Fall Semester 2009
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Twitter … Who Goes There?
Thursday, July 9th, 2009I’m experimenting, of course, with so-called social networking media for what they have to offer Journalists and J-instructors and students. Also, I’m racing to keep up with their next arc. Thus, the WORD twitters at twitter.com/theWORD_HC. The “experts” say that those who want recognition as serious bloggers (so that they may exert influence and, for me, to teach students how to exert influence), have to blog frequently.
Exert influence? Just another way of saying disseminating information (which can exert influence).
And, hopefully as well as strategically, the blogs contain content and information and wit. And, if they falter, at least the effort can help satisfy that yearning to try. Right now, I’m wrestling with writing and rewriting and rewriting the rewrites of “Do Not Remove Any Documents!!!” – a series about the perversion of core Academic principles in a certain department at Hunter [-:)].
It’s an ongoing project using empirical research, ethnography and in-depth and guerrilla journalism. Because of the demands of that effort, the constant need to revise and revise, I seem to be resorting to posting quick takes which, I hope, will provide “content and information and wit” in keeping with the advice of “experts” while I rush to get DNRAD!!! ready.
Mind boggling irony: D:F/M Bulletin Information Older Than the 9/11 Rubble
So, here are some observations and comments about Twittering.
A 30-40P Episode Ever There Was One
Friday, May 8th, 2009I came across this student-instructor correspondence [provided later in this post] while searching for other material on my hard drive. The Student-In-Question was an excellent writer as well as considerably bright. He was in his late 20s or early 30s.
In my class, he also was functionally indolent.
I plan to use this anecdote and others for my tome about The Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse.
A Tempest in a Teapot But a Tempest No Less – Part 5
Monday, April 20th, 2009My reply was posted on Hunter L.