Bardiac

In my role as a tenured member of my department, I observed a colleague's class the other day, and wrote a report for that colleague...

Today, this article came across my facebook page: :The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color...

I've been hearing this saying lately, and I like it, "Not my circus, not my monkeys."  It's a good reminder that there are...

I serve on an interdisciplinary program committee; in fact, for the past year or so, I've been chair.  I offered to become chair when I ...

As in, the student I'm worried about, not the student who worries a lot. I met recently with a student in one of my lower level course...

I got an email yesterday from the new director of the Special Interdisciplinary Program (I'm the Curriculum Committee Chair for the prog...

I've already graded a set of small assignments (I got them Thursday, turned them back Friday), and I have a set from another class (also...

NPR did a segment on trigger warnings for All Things Considered recently, "Half Of Professors In NPR Ed Survey Have Used 'Trigger...

One of my colleagues stopped by my office this morning, and mentioned her irritation that a student had sent her a rather panicked email abo...

My new song on violin, the "Hunter's Chorus" from the opera Der Freischutz , is in 2/4, and has quarter notes, eighth notes, a...

I was wandering through the HR site yesterday, and came upon a benefits calculator.  You type in the salary you estimate, and whether you...

Around the interwebs, I've been reading about colleges/universities requiring "diversity statements" along with teaching philo...

I desperately need to write a grant proposal, but I've been procrastinating at home.  So, after not sleeping much last night, I came to ...

The Good Enough Professor has a post up on "Monsters and Mythical Creatures of Higher Education" that's worth reading if you...

I invited a new colleague from a different department on campus to stay at my house until their apartment opens up on the fourth.  I was try...

I'll start with the grumpy.  I simply haven't been sleeping well for the past week or so.  It happens sometimes, bad insomnia, and t...

I went to a sale on campus of used stuff this morning.  My campus has these sales regularly, sometimes with basic office/building stuff, but...

Our contract period started, and lots of friends have already started teaching. My to-do list is a bit overwhelming.  Holy cow! Meetings...

I did a solo kayak paddle yesterday, from a town just up the river, to a little lake-ish area in my little city.  I think it was about fiv...

My topic is geographies.  What I want to do is bring together my interest in physical space/resources, race, ecocriticism. I've mapped...