It has been nearly sixty years of carrying around the guilt of it. Me, a (now emeritus) professor, an academic cheater, one who has committed the mortal sin of academe. …
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A few years ago I was riding on the light rail system in Hong Kong’s New Territories. I was sitting in front of a bulkhead with a glass frame for…
I remember the first time I ever set foot on a university campus. It was the winter recess of my eighth grade and a few of my friends and myself…
Everybody loves a good story. A good beginning, a middle and, especially, a good ending. It doesn’t matter if its non-fiction, or fiction, so long as it has that nice…
See DCJ 65. 2: On Teaching and Learning 4.21.2010, and 24. 7: Corporate U 9.21.2005] I’ll begin this essay with an anecdote (an almost sure indication of superannuation). Many years…
Readin’ and Writin’ and ‘Rithmatic Taught to the tune of a Measuring Stick Again, yesterday, I heard the President refer to the “necessity” of approaching education on a results-oriented basis,…
After a sabbatical abroad a few years ago I was appalled when I returned to campus to find a huge billboard—the kind that has lights that can change the announcements…
Recently, the Chinese oil company, CNOOC, made a bid to acquire America’s Unocal; the equivalent of the “yellow peril” coming to siphon gas out of our SUVs. Never mind the…
Everything’s out-of-date in Kansas Ci – ty / They’re back about as far as they can go . . . The genesis (oops, forgot to capitalize that word) of…