tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post9104587281156093209..comments2023-06-11T02:19:27.429-07:00Comments on Academic Cog: We can't beat them off with a stick, here, sir...Sisyphushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-43808906493837625582010-01-07T19:52:33.396-08:002010-01-07T19:52:33.396-08:00What Bardiac said. I complain a lot about my admin...What Bardiac said. I complain a lot about my administration, but they are sage and beneficent leaders compared to the astounding incompetence of Yudof. I'm convinced he was put in that job deliberately and specifically to destroy the greatest system of public higher education in the country. You know: Grover Norquist, drowning big government in the bathtub, etc.Shane in SLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09009969830290878311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-59671057347252503452010-01-07T08:05:55.408-08:002010-01-07T08:05:55.408-08:00Bitternsweet, the students who made it through my ...Bitternsweet, the students who made it through my hoops to get in were very on top of things. This is professionalizing them. I just feel that, like the intense pressures to professionalize on the academic job market, it is shaping these students in other ways too.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-48140224756025948752010-01-07T06:36:26.380-08:002010-01-07T06:36:26.380-08:00Wow. Whenever it seems like the news coming out of...Wow. Whenever it seems like the news coming out of the UCs can't get any worse ... it gets worse. That Yudoff is such an ass. I hate "entitled spoiled little shit" students -- but there is something so heartbreaking about your portrait of your students, forced to adopt these supplicating, desperate ways just to finish their degrees, that almost makes me mourn for the easy-going college student experience.<br /><br />Hang in there Cog!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-16980333474157259912010-01-07T06:16:49.985-08:002010-01-07T06:16:49.985-08:00Sisyphus, I tried to email you at that address on ...Sisyphus, I tried to email you at that address on the sidebar, but it bounced back as undeliverable. Could you drop me an email, please, at bardiacblogger at yahoo dot com.<br /><br />Thanks :)Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-36114541403680379972010-01-07T06:12:41.145-08:002010-01-07T06:12:41.145-08:00I mourn for my home state these days. It takes a ...I mourn for my home state these days. It takes a lot to make the NW U system look good, but somehow Yudof's doing it.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-76448807204092095512010-01-07T06:04:58.472-08:002010-01-07T06:04:58.472-08:00Good grief. Yudof needs a head douce, obviously. H...Good grief. Yudof needs a head douce, obviously. However, you be careful what you wish for, because he sounds dumb enough to simply drop all GE reqs and switch what used to be a great system into a laughing stock. <br /><br />We've whole schools <i>chez moi</i> arguing for dropping GenEd altogether. Because, we know, that vocational schools are all the rage...Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-70122367678759754262010-01-07T03:42:38.989-08:002010-01-07T03:42:38.989-08:00I read something in the NEw Yorker recently about ...I read something in the NEw Yorker recently about the crisis with UC. It just seems like one big cluster out there - I don't know what I can say or do to make it better except that I'm sorry and that I hope it gets better soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com