It started yesterday: boxes that had begun appearing in the hallway were being moved out. The Humanities Department is finally no more. We are now the English Department and the Department of Media, Culture & the Arts. The former is moving upstairs. It’s sad.
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Occupied?
Want to fix our current economic crisis? Start with higher education. I look at a root cause of America’s current class anxieties.
Professor of . . . ?
Sometime over the last couple of months I made a transition — a subtle shift from one reality into another. On the surface, not much has changed. It’s only when I compare what I’m doing today with what I was doing last year at this time, and I notice that I’m not really an English Professor anymore.
The New Old West
Well, it’s happening: we’re one step further toward the new old west. Apparently, the Georgia legislature feels, almost unanimously, that we citizens need to be armed. The right to bear arms is not enough: we have a compulsion to bear arms. In a gun bill that passed yesterday, 43-10, our wise legislators decided that guns [...]
Cut It Out
Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]
Ha Ha?
This cartoon by Mike Luckovich was forwarded by our VPAA today, on the cusp of announced budget cuts. I wish I could say it’s funny. I think I know what tomorrow’s blog post will be about.
Exam Week Rambling
The word of the month: “testy.” Well, the semester’s heading into mid-term time, and both of my upper level courses, New Media and 20th Cent. British Poetry and Prose, are taking their first exams this week. I just finished grading part one of the latter’s while my new-mediaers presently write away. My World Lit 2 class [...]