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How Long, Lord? How Long?
It is of course Friday, so we should be wearing white, and it is the weekend, so we should sing. I sing that I used to be surprised at what was happening. Then I was shocked, and then angry. After tha… more →
Professor Zero
How Long, Lord? How Long?
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profacero wrote 2 days ago: It is of course Friday, so we should be wearing white, and it is the weekend, so we should sing. I s … more →
Controversial Monday Ideas
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profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: …that I heard over the weekend. For your consideration: 1. “Student centered classrooms … more →
How Long Would It Take You?
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profacero wrote 1 month ago: It took me seven hours, working steadily, to do book orders for four courses and make a poster for o … more →
On Getting By
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: With some effort — not inordinate effort, mind you, but some — I have put together a two … more →
The Textbook Industrial Complex, or, The Baroque Era
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: In my foreign language class we have a thick textbook, a workbook, a lab manual, three websites, CDs … more →
Heu Mihi
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: A GENERAL QUESTION Is this only my bad luck, or is it a trend — new professors, graduate stude … more →
Some Concerns About White People
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: Are they willing to integrate themselves into all facets of American society? Do they share core Ame … more →
Popol Vuh
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: It was the weekend, and I was so hard at work that I forgot to have us sing. We will sing soon! I wa … more →
Independence Day
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Rememb … more →
On Handling Emotional Bullies: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: Much popular advice on handling emotional bullies is misguided, among other ways in that it replicat … more →
States of Our Fields: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: I am still on strike. But Samia recommends Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? She says … more →
Postscript on Those Ladies. Excursus on Vampires Who Seek Blood, or on Cannibals Who Seek Fresh Meat.
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: Qui potest capere, capiat: this post is a bagatelle and footnote to various earlier posts, and I am … more →
On "Changing" Higher Education
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profacero wrote 6 months ago: First, an epigraph of sorts from Dr. Crazy, who first answered the question ten of us were asked. He … more →
Pourquoi je ne suis pas encore partie
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: Many of the posts in this weblog are about feeling stifled, imprisoned, and hemmed in by my professo … more →
A Second Heretical Post, a Story, and a Question
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profacero wrote 8 months ago: Heresy In my experience the decorous things to say are that teaching is fun, writing is work, publis … more →
Global Whiteness
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profacero wrote 8 months ago: Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according … more →
A Heretical Post
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profacero wrote 8 months ago: Writing is fun and publishing is easy. I know it is heresy to say that, so I will repeat it througho … more →
Gary Rhoades
profacero wrote 10 months ago: In Change Magazine, there is an article on the academic industrial complex to read and discuss. The … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Ned Sublette, John Pizer, and the Princeton Review
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profacero wrote 10 months ago: The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of … more →
