Like: anticipated absences they think deserve excuse, reasons, excuses, mitigating circumstances. Talk is cheap. I only have so much working memory – and documenting or remembering things constitutes mental labor. This labor, and the stress attached, is the student…
Late April, Guns and Schools
We play a game in some classes where we list historical dates and others guess what happened. We often learn that revolutions tend to happen in the summer, and that school shootings cluster around the 3rd week in April. A…
RateMyProfessor: Marketing, Assessment and Reliability.
A student journalist contacted me yesterday and asked about my feelings on the accuracy of feedback on a popular crowd sourced website. They approached me because I had the highest number of student evaluations (206 at this moment). My feelings…
Campus Wide Sustainability Contest.
Every year JCCC Sustainability holds a contest for student ideas. Each semester they fund these projects AND award cash (? – cav. card) prizes. See website here for more details. This semester I’d like one of my student groups to…