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Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc… Read more

The hidden cost of graduate school

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. In the moment, I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs… Read more

MLIS @ LSU

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

Teaching evaluations

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

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