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Insignificant Wranglings
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Petition Against Tuition Scaling
A quick post today; Governor is attempting to scale tuition increases based on major, with non-STEM majors paying more tuition. This proposal is built on faulty grounds. Increasingly, our economy is driven by creativity and innovation. The humanities supply these … Continue reading
Red Sox Hot Stove
With the exception of the postseason, hot stove is my favorite time of the baseball year. This off-season is particularly important to the Red Sox, after the Valentine debacle and the great salary purge. This year has a very weak … Continue reading
CUNY and salvaging the “doomed project”
And just like that pedagogic expertise is crushed by economic and political efficiency. At CUNY Queensborough the administration has sought to reduce composition to a 3 hour course, instead of its traditional 4. The faculty refused, on the grounds that … Continue reading
Posted in academically-adrift, composition, corporate-university, education, sirc
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First Day, Fall 2012
Somehow it is already the first day of classes for 2012. I am not sure where my summer went. I am excited to teach a new grad class this semester, New Media Production. The course differs from the other grad … Continue reading
Posted in electracy, mystory, new-media-class, teaching, ulmer, writing, writing-tech
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Summer Reading
I know it is a bit late to be posting my summer reading list, but here’s the things I have or will be reading this summer Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing, Ian Bogost How to … Continue reading
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Among the Republicans
Prepping for my role as a blogger during the upcoming RNC, I read Among the Republicans by V.S. Naipaul, a reflection upon the 1984 Republican National Convention. Interesting is the extent to which Naipaul focuses on the rising New Right … Continue reading
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Health Care Passes
I’m sitting in a meeting, prepping to be a live Blogger during the RNC (scheduled to be held in Tampa). And, during the meeting, I’ve been following the anticipated Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Healthcare Act (its being covered … Continue reading
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Twain on Writing Ecologies (err, Plagiarism)
I stumbled upon this today over at Letters of Note, a letter from Mark Twain to Helen Keller after he learned she had been accused of plagiarism. Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that … Continue reading
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Kevin Smith on Digital Economics
So I just discovered Reddit’s series of interviews, IAMA. There’s one with Kevin Smith, in which he responds to a question on digital copyright. His response reminds me of the argument forwarded by Lessig years ago in Remix: Here’s my … Continue reading
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Cooper and Edbauer
My undergrad semniar in rhetorical theory is coming to a close–it has been a great semester, even if it involved more lecturing that I would have wanted. My students are currently working on research projects; the following is a quick … Continue reading
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