Quote from: secundem_artem on May 03, 2024, 12:35:57 PMQuote from: secundem_artem on April 19, 2024, 10:01:57 AMThanks to all for the concern and good wishes for all the ongoing mishegoss at Artem U. I'm personally safe and close enough to retirement that if the merde well and truly hits the fan, I am well funded for retirement and can just leave.
Earlier this week, the advisory body that was the next step in the process just spit the pacifier and threw all the toys out of the crib. Were I the prez, I'd argue that they did not negotiate in good faith. They have essentially ceded all decision making to the board and gawd knows what those guys may do.
Said advisory body seems to have recognized they shat the bed and are scrambling to come up with a last minute, Hail Mary proposal to get in front of the board. I'd offer that the proposals are about as effective as "let's have a bake sale". Rather than dance with the devil they knew, now we all get to dance with the devil we don't. Academic governance is a freakin' farce. Nobody should take it seriously.
Update.
All the tall foreheads and deep thinkers on the board punted. No decision made.
Everybody knows something or somebody is gonna get cut. But nobody has the balls to wield the knife.
SO NOW FVCK1N6 WHAT!!!!???!!!
I'm inclined to ride this thing all the way to the bottom just to see how cowardly, incompetent, naive, foolish and generally stupid people can be. I'll turn off the lights off on my way out.
My contempt for so-called faculty governance continues if the various wets and sob sisters cannot actually make a painful decision. Putting adherence to mission over financial concerns is fine, BUT ONLY IF THE BLOODY FUNDS EXIST TO PAY FOR IT!!
Quote from: Hibush on May 07, 2024, 10:36:08 AM[. . .]
Our prompt is along the lines of, "What kinds of diverse students have you taught, and how have you investigated and responded to potential obstacles to their learning and full participation in class?"
That is no more compelled speech than asking what kind of grants people have applied to
[. . .]
Quote from: Hibush on May 07, 2024, 10:36:08 AMQuote from: dismalist on May 07, 2024, 08:31:28 AMQuoteIn announcing the change, M.I.T.'s president, Sally Kornbluth, said diversity statements constituted a form of compelled speech that do not work.
If they don't work, they wouldn't have to be abolished. Problem is they do work in selecting faculty.
I wonder how MIT worded the request so that it appeared to be compelled speech.
Our prompt is along the lines of, "What kinds of diverse students have you taught, and how have you investigated and responded to potential obstacles to their learning and full participation in class?"
That is no more compelled speech than asking what kind of grants people have applied to and how their applications responded to the individual needs of diverse sponsors.
Quote from: dismalist on May 07, 2024, 08:31:28 AMQuoteIn announcing the change, M.I.T.'s president, Sally Kornbluth, said diversity statements constituted a form of compelled speech that do not work.
If they don't work, they wouldn't have to be abolished. Problem is they do work in selecting faculty.
Quote from: marshwiggle on May 03, 2024, 05:40:36 PMQuote from: darkstarrynight on May 03, 2024, 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.
What possible objection could a former instructor have? If a student wrote an essay or short story for a course, should they have to get the prof's permission if later in life they want to publish it???? Does it cease to be the student's own intellectual property once its been submitted for a course???