tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post5295637011112015533..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Cluster HeadacheBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-35649449196517782542010-04-18T23:10:36.102-07:002010-04-18T23:10:36.102-07:00They did this cluster(f**k) thing to us too. In s...They did this cluster(f**k) thing to us too. In some ways I can see it's a good idea (in theory), but in reality what it meant was that they split linguistics into tiny splinters, which was already two separate areas (a teaching dept in the Faculty of fArts and a research dept in the Research School of sPacific an dAsian Studies (just trying to make things ungoogleable here). So now we have a bunch of linguists in the Languages and Cultures cluster, and all the rest split among geographical clusters, e.g. a Papuan cluster, an Indonesian cluster, etc.<br /><br />We also somehow ended up with two distinct groups with almost the same name: one is called "Linguistics Languages and Cultures (LLC)", and the other is called "Culture, History and Language (CHL)" No, I don't know how they assigned people to each cluster. Random flip of the coin, I think.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-29723742664050737252010-04-16T19:07:16.154-07:002010-04-16T19:07:16.154-07:00were it not for the fact that the gen ed proposal ...were it not for the fact that the gen ed proposal currently circulating at my u does not involve bundles, I'd be thinking that we must be colleagues. My admin similarly makes decisions in advance of announced deadlines, and it's so toxic to the overall climate for projects (like gen ed) that really could be run in ways that enhance the overall environment.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-82270211083706082652010-04-16T16:11:17.929-07:002010-04-16T16:11:17.929-07:00Oy.
If misery loves company, it might make you fe...Oy.<br /><br />If misery loves company, it might make you feel better (well, probably not) to know that I could have written this post. Your president and my president probably drink on each other's porches.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-18979639487455270412010-04-16T14:23:40.771-07:002010-04-16T14:23:40.771-07:00That's classic, isn't it? Our gen ed requ...That's classic, isn't it? Our gen ed requirements have all these broad ideas and the one thing they don't have as a concept is time.... as a historian, it makes me nuts.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-67808284859935381642010-04-16T11:29:03.546-07:002010-04-16T11:29:03.546-07:00i'd be pretty pissed at this point. if the ob...i'd be pretty pissed at this point. if the objective is cross-discipline clusters to cover sets of gen ed requirements, it really needs to have many disciplines involved with the whole deal. <br /><br />first, i think you and your group should complain loudly about exclusion from the initial processes. <br /><br />and next, of course, y'all need to pull together why it is important you be included in the planning, and not at late dates. you have more to give than filling someone else's agenda, right? a broad liberal arts education is really abotu teaching students to think, teaching them about multiple disciplines and how they do their work, and about ideas that have endured over time -- the original messages in context, how they have influenced modern things, developments of thought from there. and so on, this is off the top and i'm not an academic.<br /><br />but i do actually feel passionately about multi-disciplinary studies. my freshman year was spent in a full-year integrated program designed to meet the gen ed requirements, organized by "topics" but drawing in material from many academic disciplines. it was absolutely wonderful; life-changing, even.kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-27874139477208950882010-04-16T08:23:24.218-07:002010-04-16T08:23:24.218-07:00Well, of course, writing (and history and suchlike...Well, of course, writing (and history and suchlike stuff) is EASY and you can certainly find something to support these important initiatives. And it's not like you have labs or real research agendas or stuff to worry about disrupting whereas these other guys, well, they're doing important stuff that needs to be respected.<br /><br />*headdesk* You have my sympathies!Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093558563358431804noreply@blogger.com