I had never lived in a city striated by irrigation ditches, so when I arrived in Boise, I was surprised to hear water coursing under a sidewalk, come across a completely silent and barely rippled canal running behind houses, glimpse a tiny waterfall disappearing under a street, or discover what appeared to be a happy, […]
[Continue reading...]I’m sick again, and on antibiotics again, and once again they don’t seem to be making a dent. (I had so much to accomplish between submitting grades and Lucas getting out of school for the summer. sigh.) But I do have a couple things to share: My Blue Review post on universities innovating with technology from within was […]
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This screenshot snippet, taken from a job listings page at a community college, captures pretty succinctly much of what’s wrong with higher education priorities today. The job description for the “faculty internship” explicitly states the position is intended to groom people for (those crazy high-paying) adjunct jobs. I wonder if the position is akin to […]
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The boy, it ends up, is an avid hiker. He’s 7.5 now, and on Sunday, there wasn’t a single complaint on what ended up being a 4-mile jaunt with lots of uphill walking. Looking at how big he’s getting also reminds me how long I’ve been blogging.
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It’s Fang’s birthday again. April 20 is an inauspicious time to have a birthday, what with it being Hitler’s birthday (also the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting and the Deepwater Horizon explosion) and with the anniversary of the “shot heard round the world” (Oklahoma City bombing, Branch Davidian conflagration) immediately preceding it. (Let’s […]
[Continue reading...]Anyone who has read The Clutter Museum for a while knows I’m not a Luddite. I like to play with technology, and I encourage my students to be curious about digital media, and particularly about how they might use it to build thoughtful public history projects and programs. However, there’s a constellation of higher ed […]
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Here’s what Lucas read over spring break: That stack amounts to about 570 pages. Here’s what was sent home as appropriate reading for him from school this week: It has three pages of text. Lucas can spell apprentice and warriors and basilisk, but his spelling words this week include boy, toy, and joy. Lucas […]
[Continue reading...]I have a couple new pieces up at The Blue Review blog. The first is on impostor syndrome in academia. The second, meatier piece draws on my observation that universities are drawing on software development principles–and not necessarily the best ones–in creating and refining programs. Here’s the beginning of it: In this age of slashed […]
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Look out–this one’s going to be especially rambly. Back at this blog’s former home, I blogged more frequently about depression than I have lately–so much so that for a while, The Clutter Museum was ranked #1 in Google for the phrase “depression in academia.” Fortunately, I’m not dealing with those demons at the moment, but […]
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One of the anxieties I had about moving to Idaho was raising a white boy in such a white state. I’ve written before about how, perhaps because I was raised in one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse places on the planet, I feel my whiteness most acutely when I’m in a crowd of […]
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