So I just paid my student loan a couple of days ago, which basically means I hit a button on the loan website and depleted my financial resources for another month. I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs which most… Read more
I should have linked to this before, but I didn’t think of it. The LSU library and information science program is under threat of closure due to budget cuts. I wrote a letter in to the Advocate in support of the program. It actually got… Read more
I got my teaching evaluations back yesterday. I have been thinking lately about faculty reviews and teaching evaluations because they are such an issue at school lately. Our student ratings are incorporated in our annual reviews, so the numbers… Read more
Today has been an interesting lesson in stereotypes. Lesson one: I had a guest speaker from Deaf Services in BR come to my Interpersonal Communication class. He was dynamic and interesting and the students loved him. Before his visit, I decided to… Read more