Bardiac

Another for the annals of excellence without money:   I was in a composition teaching workshop last week, half an hour of which was really u...

I just finished clicking my grades in (how much more pleasant is that than walking a grade sheet over to the registrar's office by hand)...

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, legally desegregating schools in the US.  Supposedly.  ( Here'...

Last Wednesday, my community had a birding day.  The biology department at NWU, working in conjunction with local birders and the community,...

I had a final this afternoon in a classroom building with halls full of classes for 20-30 students each.  During the semester, the class hap...

Serious question here. Why is grading so onerous? I'm sure everyone else tries to write assignments that will lead to interesting pr...

I have about 50 projects to grade, three exams to write, three exams to proctor, 50 exams to grade, and then the semester's done. If I...

I thought more about the goals, more about the class, and more about stuff last night, and realized that I hadn't put in some of the stu...

In the ever constant race to update and revise and be prepared for our next departmental review, we're doing these projects to make our ...

Last year I saw my first Yellow-headed Blackbird .  This year, I saw about four all near by. I also saw bunches of ducks, and a couple of...

We just finished an almost 2 hour meeting; we also had a two hour meeting of the same group last week. We finally voted, after many hours ...

It's that time of year when I'm really ready to be done with stupid excuses, both from students and administrators. I'm tired ...

I was following link bait from effbee earlier today, and read an article about retiring near college campuses to communities with close ties...

I took my non-teaching responsibilities today and went birding.   I'm remarkably bad at IDing ducks.  Still, these are ring-necked du...

I'm still slightly under the weather.  As I was walking to my 2 hour class today, psyching myself up to appear energized, I thought abou...

A couple I know who've been adjuncting at NWU are moving far away; this morning, they had a moving sale.  I'm sad for us to be losin...

I got an email from a colleague the other day, asking about a student who needs an upper division course, but also needs Shakespeare (which ...

398 years ago today, William Shakespeare died.  So says the parish record.  It's not a nice round number, but there it is. Traditional...

I've had a cold this week, not serious, but coughing, hacking, and sleeping a lot.  And yet, I've taught all my classes.  I wasn...

Last fall, I was thinking aloud (in the company of friends) about doing that thing where you put crocus bulbs in your lawn, and then in the ...