The Fora: A Higher Education Community

Quote from: apl68 on Today at 10:31:19 AMI thought the default was usually somebody who had given the institution several million dollars.

Maybe down south. That doesn't happen much here. Certainly not often enough for all the honorary doctorates awarded!

Via IHE:

QuoteLarry Chavis, who's taught in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's business school for 18 years, received a letter April 22 from an associate dean revealing he was under review after the university "received some reports concerning class content and conduct within your class over the past few months."

That was concerning by itself, Chavis said, but there was something else in the letter that's worrying other faculty members as well. The associate dean, Christian T. Lundblad, told Chavis that the review had begun prior to April 22—using a camera in Chavis's classroom.

I thought the default was usually somebody who had given the institution several million dollars.

I can't work up any outrage over the silly story myself.  Perhaps younger me, still deeply distressed at washing out of grad school, would have felt different.  It took a long time to get past the bitterness of that experience.

Quote from: Ancient Fellow on Today at 03:36:51 AMConsidering the sacrifices made by post grads and their families to earn a doctorate, especially in the midst of such a terrible economy and job market, I think the university's granting a doctorate to a friendly cat is remarkably tone-deaf.

I don't know that that's substantively different from most other honorary doctorate recipients, though. Here, the default is just some civil servant who's done nothing more than their job for thirty years.

Twelve pages today.

We had a dog at convocation yesterday.  We missed the opportunity to confer a Dog-ter of Canine Letters.

I'll see myself out.....

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 19, 2024, 03:43:36 PMSeems like a better recipient than most, really. And not likely to disgrace himself.

I agree! Sounds like he's been a valuable member of the community and has contributed quite a bit to the student experience.  And I don't think that anyone else will be grumbling about having been the one to truly deserve to be awarded a doctorate in litter-ature from the Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Cat-leges.

That better be one damn good pineapple is all I can say.

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Quote from: secundem_artem on May 15, 2024, 02:39:21 PMSaw American Fiction last night.  Deserved the Oscar buzz and awards.  I'd be curious if Black forumites have a different take on it.  Certainly, white people in the movie were portrayed mostly as none-too-bright virtue signaling fools.

We saw this last night.  I don't have that frame of reference that you are asking about, but I agree it was worth the awards and other recognition.  It kind of reminded me of The Holdovers in a general sense of feel.  Not that the feeling was the same.  Maybe it's a movie type? A movie about life.  I knew what the main plot point was and completely forgot about it after getting wrapped up in a different part of the story (about his family).  Wright and the other actors brought a lot to this one for me.  My husband and I were both surprised afterward that so much of what we had heard was that the movie was good overall but that the ending wasn't? We both thought it fit pretty perfectly.  I think there was a lot that was really smart about this movie.  Some points were made a little more subtly, and some more overtly, but thumbs up from us.

I saw American Fiction on the flight back from Europe. Really liked it! And frankly, some white people can be clueless and virtue-signaling. I loved the scene where they were voting for the literary awards.

Also watched A Star is Born with Lady Gaga on the same flight. Now I want to go back and watch the original versions to see how they updated and adapted the plots.

Yeah, the part with the literary awards was particularly good.

We have the opposite with A Star is Born, having seen the one with Judy Garland a while back and needing to see the one with Gaga.  It sounds as though there were a few changes!

Good morning!

Got to genius with pangram so far.  Yesterday I got to QB and think my final word was oboe.

No luck on LB.  Congrats, ciao_yall!

Langue_doc, sorry to hear that you have been in pain for so long! I hope the appointment or even the fact that it exists helps you.  Doesn't that always happen?! Feel better soon!

Happy solving!