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My college made IHE today, once again*, for all the wrong reasons. This, despite constantly being told we're a "best place to work," leading the way in innovations, God's gift to academia, etc., by admin. This incident involves (arguably) hate speech by an employee to a student, and campus admin allowing (though "not condoning"**) similar threatening speech by an outsider to go on for several hours.



*The last two times were when a student's assault went unacknowledged and uninvestigated for over a week while TPTB were out of town on a retreat, and when a previously-unannounced RIF took out 1/3 of our math and English departments district-wide.

**Not quite sure where the dividing line for that lies: I get the First Amendment aspect, but when overt, targeted threats are made. . . .

And I got a quick 2fer! The puzzle gods must be going easier on us at the moment.

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Quote from: fosca on April 15, 2024, 01:56:15 PMFrom a junior in college:

"goodmorning, and i feel like some of the assignments i earned more than what i got my actual work was good just was not formatted how you wanted but aside from how it's formatted the actual work i feel i should have a higher grade in certain assignments"

Wow! ee cummings has reincarnated!

LOL!

But actually pretty sad, especially if this is not an ESL student.  If the student's work looked remotely like this correspondence, then the student surely earned no better a grade than what fosca gave.

I'd bet cash money that the message was typed on a phone, like every other communication Stu has with anyone. Punctuation and capitalization are "adulting" behaviours and so VEEERY HAAAARD!

Quote from: spork on Today at 02:20:05 AMDipak Panigrahy, Harvard Medical School, submitted 500 pages of plagiarized word salad as expert testimony in a federal class action lawsuit. The judge rejected it.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/15/hms-professor-plagiarized-report/ 

More egg on Harvard's face.

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Quote from: fosca on April 15, 2024, 01:56:15 PMFrom a junior in college:

"goodmorning, and i feel like some of the assignments i earned more than what i got my actual work was good just was not formatted how you wanted but aside from how it's formatted the actual work i feel i should have a higher grade in certain assignments"

Wow! ee cummings has reincarnated!

LOL!

But actually pretty sad, especially if this is not an ESL student.  If the student's work looked remotely like this correspondence, then the student surely earned no better a grade than what fosca gave.

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Quote from: FishProf on Today at 07:10:46 AMStudents are required to meet with an advisor in order to register for the next semester.  No, going onto the online portal, picking classes, and then clicking "ask my advisor to review" is not sufficient.  And now, you've missed registration and the classes you need are full.

Not my circus, but it IS my monkey.

Not being familiar with the situation, I'm curious why the "ask my advisor to review" option is there if a meeting is required. Why wouldn't the process be completed in the meeting?

The company that makes the software has it enabled as default and my Uni won't turn it off.

Another locally-owned trailer bears the brand name "Momentum."  Given its size and three slide-outs, it seems quite well-named.  Once you get it going, it must be a challenge to stop!

Quote from: hmaria1609 on April 15, 2024, 11:57:08 AMGot folks who waited until the last minute to get their tax materials copied, printed, or both here at the library. Argh!

We saw some of that too.  I was reminded of what some here at The Fora have said regarding a "due date" not being a "do date."

Saturday I assembled a flat-pack bookcase, my previous six self-assembly bookcases having come close to capacity.  It took me and my ten thumbs about an hour and a half.  I seem to have to add a new one about every four or five years.

The biggest flat-pack item I've ever helped to assemble was when I once assisted a friend in putting together a large home desk assembly.  It took the two of us a couple of hours.  He said of the new do-it-yourself furniture "It's amazing what they can do with just sawdust and glue."

Quote from: FishProf on Today at 07:10:46 AMStudents are required to meet with an advisor in order to register for the next semester.  No, going onto the online portal, picking classes, and then clicking "ask my advisor to review" is not sufficient.  And now, you've missed registration and the classes you need are full.

Not my circus, but it IS my monkey.

Not being familiar with the situation, I'm curious why the "ask my advisor to review" option is there if a meeting is required. Why wouldn't the process be completed in the meeting?