I may need to do 2 truths and a lie this week. Jemele Hill, the sharp and witty correspondent from The Atlantic (a conservative mag of repute) and formerly of ESPN, and perhaps the first journalist of color to directly…
The No Classhole Rule
I‘ve written before about Robert Sutton’s book, The No Asshole Rule. It’s a lodestone text in business classes written by a Stanford Business professor and developed from an article he published in The Harvard Business Review. It’s a funny story. …
Strengths Quest
I’d like an honest and critical look at what we get out of personality tests. I’ve taken Strengths Quest twice, and had similar (but not identical) results. As someone with “Ideation, Learner and Strategic” strengths, I may have done a…
Letter to my students: FA16
It started as a nagging concern that a couple students were about to give up – and needed a kick in the pants, as Grandma would have put it. It turned in to an email sent to all of my…
Things not to say to your prof, and other advice.
I expect all of my comp 1 students to have read Mary Pat McQueeney’s “Information for Dual Enrolled High School Students,” and Matthew Schmeer’s “A Few Notes about This Class and How I TEach it” and Dave Davis’s “10 things…
More Advice for Students: from teh interwebs.
I was the almost first generation to graduate college; My mom beat me by a couple years. I did benefit from hearing about her experiences, but there are tricks and truths about college that 2nd and 3rd generation college grads…
Types of Students
College Misery breaks down taxonomies of students with frightening regularity. I want to think that if we discussed theses we could better communicate with with first generation students who don’t know what to expect and / or have unrealistic expectations.…
Plagiarism – my policy explained
Do you know how to make rice? Put 1 cup rice and 2 cups water together, bring to boil, reduce heat and cover for 20 minutes. How much would you pay for that much rice in a restaurant? It depends. …
spring final exam schedule
Student’s always have trouble figuring out when finals are. If instructors try to schedule anything other than the time prescribed by the college – they shouldn’t. There’s no reason to have more than 3 finals on 1 day – and…
Punctuality
This keeps happening. I’ve written about using The No *ssh*l* Rule as part of my syllabus (it’s a book written by Ivy league business prof, and published in Harvard University Press). I really enjoy this chart, taken from Graphjam (link…