The Fora: A Higher Education Community

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Quote from: spork on April 29, 2024, 10:25:50 AMClosure announcements today:

Wells College, NY

University of Saint Katherine, CA

Either St. Katherine's students and faculty had more to say, or its closure was the more abrupt of the two.  Apparently the great majority of their students played sports.

"St. Katherine's was founded in 2010 and offered more than two dozen undergraduate and three graduate programs of study. It enrolled about 300 students." The article indciated that they mainly enrolled students who could not afford to pay tuition, which leads quickly to dire financial straits unless one has a major alternate source of revenue. They also had grandiose plans for a 5000 student institution on a brand new campus in Chula Vista.

When you put it that way, you make it sound like somebody didn't think things through there....

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Quote from: darkstarrynight on Today at 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.

My institution has a similar policy, but only requires permission from the instructor of the current course, not the former course.

Quote from: darkstarrynight on Today at 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.

Unless it's a small school where everybody is easy to get to, I'd think it might be easier to just do a new assignment than to try to get both profs to agree to that.

Quote from: aside on Today at 11:02:05 AMIf you post a sign saying "Do not post signs on this door" on a door...

Saw a sign like that on a door on the campus where I was a grad student.  People respected it by not posting other signs.  It on the second floor, on what amounted to a fire escape landing, so there wasn't much reason why anybody would want to post signs there in the first place.  After a couple of years, the stairs and landing where taken away, and you just had this door up there, with a sign about not posting notices on it.  Later the door and sign were painted over.  You could still see the outline of the sign.  Wonder how many people are aware today that it was ever there?

Keep in mind now that many of the people now who have to look for jobs are regionally bound and may have some reasonable scholarship and other attractive qualities, but probably not the types to be top of anyone's lists. That would probably go for a lot of staff too.

Anyway, I doubt any of these schools really have much of a plan. They try to attract big donors, and when they don't, they have to make cuts, which rarely look attractive to prospective students, faculty or staff. If you have a large and flexible endowment, you could probably weather just about any storm, and it just becomes a question of when it just is pointless to have a dozen faculty, a few staff and a handful of students.  Of course, without the endowment, schools are forced to shutter when enrollment declines by too much too fast, and without any cushion (endowment, regular annual fund donations, grants).

Quote from: darkstarrynight on Today at 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.

My institution has a similar policy, but only requires permission from the instructor of the current course, not the former course.

If you post a sign saying "Do not post signs on this door" on a door...

As someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.

May Goals

• Finish writing chapter with coauthor due 5/31
• Keep working on book manuscript due 8/1
• Return to chapter with spouse, now accepted for special issue due 8/12

I did work a tiny bit on the book this week but I am so behind! My spouse and I submitted a chapter proposal to a special issue with our rejected (after revision) manuscript from last year and it got accepted! So now my spouse begrudgingly has to write with me again, ha!

T1 work today, although I should probably start filling out the forms and stuff for T2, which should be back from the referee soon. Suppose I should sort out my one image permission, too (not hard, it's from the NPG).

I don't have a specific text but I'd try to find some way to ensure those completing the course are aware of the effect Islamic Finance and the unique features of the regional economy may have on trade in general. Many people focus on the religious, geographic and other factors of the region in an intro or survey course while placing little emphasis on the vast economic differences that are in some ways as consequential.