professors

Is anyone else genuinely not interested in knowing what should be private details of another adult’s health? I’m happy to point students to helpful resources that I know about, but treating them is not my job, nor am I interested in the liability of being seen as some sort of first responder. This is well and truly out of my...

Now that the end is in sight, how’s it going?

A series of cuts at West Virginia University has largely affected the humanities, but any program that is not seen as marketable may get the axe.

nytimes.com/…/college-board-ap-exams-courses.html…...

In another thread, @flooppoolf made a post leading to the question “How long until we need to include a lesson on crafting appropriate AI prompts in order to help students use them as tools and not as unpaid ghost writers?” Are we already doing this?...

I know that we’re all still feeling our way around this issue, but how are other profs handling it? What is good evidence of unauthorized AI use? How do you handle a student who refuses to engage in attempts to get their side of the story?...

This fall, I have a student who seems unfamiliar with showering and deodorant. I haven’t said anything, hoping that the issue is just a one-off and that it will resolve itself. However, we’re quickly approaching the end of my patience, and I’m not sure how to proceed....

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These days, any serious administrator of a university, public or private, will spend an enormous chunk of their time raising money from donors. How much? One informed rumor suggests that a third of their time would not be off-base—and this at a public university....

In a move that affects hundreds of students and faculty, West Virginia University announced Friday it is recommending dropping 32 majors, including 20 post-graduate programs, as part of its restructuring in the face of a $45 million budget deficit....

Many faculty, even senior ones, truly do not realize the extent of their power, and how this lack of self awareness is often contributes to these crises. I know this partly because I didn’t know the extent of my power....

I admit to being a little bummed out. It was relatively good work. While I strongly believe that students retain copyright to their own work and can post it wherever they want, I’m still sad....

Writing those bullshit memos admin makes you write when you want to get around some stupid university policy. I’ve used it twice and it’s great. The recipients could care less about the details or accuracy of the memo, they just want the piece of paper.

A Texas A&M University professor was suspended, investigated and ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing for allegedly criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture about the opioid crisis. The probe has free speech advocates concerned about political influence over academia in Texas.

We’ve received word that we’re migrating from the older version of Blackboard to the new, “student approved”, Blackboard Ultra....

…and I’m already looking for winter Inter session....

I received an email from a textbook salesman. This isn't a rarity, but today this line lept out at me:...

So my uni has now included a “no resignation” clause in next year’s contracts. It’s my first year getting this type of contract, so maybe it’s always been there, but it seems strange – not to mention probably ultimately unenforceable.

New cohort. New edition of the books. Students stared into space last week during orientation and I've received over two dozen emails and calls about zeros on late work....

I’m curious – those of you (like me) who have withdrawn from extra work outside of your defined workload (e.g. no extra service or teaching), have you just shut up about it, or have any of you loudly drawn attention to it? How did it go?...

How do you solo parents go to conferences with school-age kids? It seems essentially impossible unless the conference is over the summer.

I decided that since I hadn’t found any other communities in the Lemmy community browser, I would just make one for us....