Category Archives: academically-adrift

CUNY and salvaging the “doomed project”

Posted on September 17, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

And just like that pedagogic expertise is crushed by economic and political efficiency. At CUNY Queensborough the administration has sought to reduce composition to a 3 hour course, instead of its traditional 4. The faculty refused, on the grounds that … Continue reading →

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Teaching a Philosophy of Life

Posted on July 11, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s snippet comes from a student’s paper defending the value of his liberal arts major. One of the questions I posed this semester, while reading Academically Adrift and Not For Profit was whether Universities’ missions included teaching values, or whether … Continue reading →

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Ethical Learning, Responsibility, and Assessment

Posted on July 5, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A long time ago, when I first became enamored with the possibilities of digital communication and deconstruction, I remember constructing a piece on spectrality and student work. I was proud when the piece won a Parlor Press award at Purdue … Continue reading →

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Blogging Pedagogy & Academically Adrift

Posted on June 24, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today is the final day of my summer Expository Writing class. I build all of my classes around themes; this semester was dedicated to blogging. Mxrk, Ryan P. Weber, and I will be putting together an article dedicated to the … Continue reading →

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