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Somebody somewhere is making a mint selling keffiyehs to  white college kids who didn't even know what those things were 6 weeks ago.

In support of an opinion upthread from Wahoo: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/protest-effectiveness-research/678292/

Quote from: methodsman on May 07, 2024, 02:04:13 PM.   And, no, contrary to popular belief, the growth in administrators is not the cause of most
institutions' demise. 
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Maybe, but it sure doesn't help. Here is a recent Atlantic piece: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/no-one-knows-what-universities-are-for/ar-BB1m2mbD

.docx or a pdf file, the latter if you want formatting and tables to display accurately.

We allow one repeat, a third attempt only with special permission.
But honestly, if a student fails once* they almost always fail again.

*Unless there was a big disruption/something outside of their control (e.g. medical crisis) that is now resolved.

Quote from: apl68 on May 03, 2024, 08:06:55 AMThe Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester.  As much as anything, this is a love letter to the Oxford English Dictionary.  The print version of the OED, which I recall using some in grad school, is an awe-inspiring work.  Multiple, vast, well-produced volumes, filled with hundreds of thousands of words, each with a painstaking etymology and numerous quotes tracing its assorted definitions and shades of meaning down through the centuries.  Though the first edition was not completed until the 1920s, it was in origin a fantastically ambitious Victorian project. 

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Sounds like this is a retitling of The Professor and the Madman which I enjoyed a while back!

Yes, I always use .docx. Earlier versions of Word are compatible with later ones, but not necessarily vice versa (some fonts, in particular, may not exist in previous versions, and when the document converts to the earlier version you can get weird stuff. Especially if you use non-Latin characters or mathematical symbols.

Or you can send a pdf, which will always display correctly.

I do not see how this bill does that, there are the same checks and balances that exist in any and all administrative actions.

Other community colleges in NYS are going through the same thing. Rockland County community college announced similar measures in April and the numbers do not lie, with %50 decline in enrollment since covid-19 the budget must be cut.

Quote from: Myword on May 10, 2024, 10:54:05 AMThose of you who use Word 2019 and newer, which document file do you use for your
papers? A list is offered, including Worddocument, Open XL and many others. What's the difference?
 I ask because
 I sent a paper to a editor and she said it cpntained garbage encoded nonsense,
using XL. So I had to paste the whole text and send it. Okay for now, she said.
   I never saw coded nonsense in my work.   I use Word365 new. PC.

Was the DOS extension of your submitted MS Word file .docx  ?

Always use .docx