tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post2685601170213782195..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: DreadBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-5311809451899300092020-10-07T16:40:11.745-07:002020-10-07T16:40:11.745-07:00I doubt that anything short of a serious outbreak ...I doubt that anything short of a serious outbreak would convince the administrators in the high towers to do that. Evidently they are willing to lose a percentage of students, faculty and staff in exchange for business even if it's not as usual. Even my university, which has a $4 billion endowment, has decided to bring 2/3 of the student body back to campus this semester. Jeff Todd Titonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384565652765905576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-14850745066607272592020-09-26T22:17:19.766-07:002020-09-26T22:17:19.766-07:00If you can convince our headmaster, I would suppor...If you can convince our headmaster, I would support that 100%.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-46365598412479642162020-09-20T18:35:44.341-07:002020-09-20T18:35:44.341-07:00Caught in the middle, charge of the light brigade,...Caught in the middle, charge of the light brigade, feeling that dread? I believe that the humane thing, the life-saving thing, would be for your university to offer faculty and students the option to teach and learn (and be a chair) entirely online, until we have a reasonably effective vaccine. Jeff Todd Titonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384565652765905576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-24282790897324452552020-09-12T13:08:19.711-07:002020-09-12T13:08:19.711-07:00I feel that dread! I'm on the committee evalua...I feel that dread! I'm on the committee evaluating candidates for tenure and promotion, and it's a real challenge finding effective ways to observe teaching. Some classes aren't big enough to allow in-person observations with social distancing, and some observers have excellent reasons to avoid in-person observations, and some classes are partly in person and partly online...and every time we get one problem figured out, a new one arises. And our IT people are doing their best to smooth the path, but sometimes we're stuck with systems that just weren't designed with this kind of situation in mind. As if we needed one more problem to deal with this semester!Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.com