Elsevier has a staff member whose official title is Disruptive Technologies Director. Wow. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or feel sorry for them. I’d really like to read the job description for someone with that title.
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Filed under Academia,Behavior,Students,Teaching
Wow. Smacked Down.
I got a link today about a business professor who allegedly put a student on blast via email. It was an interesting read and I’m ashamed to admit that I found it horrifying and oddly affirming. The affirmation comes from believing that it is important to have some lines and make some lines clear. While [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 24th 2010
So in my stats class, one of the quizzes I give presents a number of research scenarios. The student’s responsibility is to determine the appropriate statistical procedure they’d need to use to correctly solve the problem. The key to correctly answer the question is typically contained in the problem itself. More often than not, I [...]
No Comments Khalil on Dec 2nd 2009
I think it’s safe to finally admit that summer is officially over. Semester schools have wrapped up their second week and most quarter schools will start in a couple of weeks. If your classes haven’t started and you’ve not already started thinking about academic life and getting yourself psychologically prepared to be thrown back into [...]
No Comments Khalil on Sep 5th 2009
Filed under Academia,Fam,Kids,Life
Summer is almost over. WTF?
Like many in academia, I tend to think I’ll get a complete handle on life come summer and somehow, in the few months between regular terms, become a recharged human being. In this amazing fantasy, it always seems that, somehow, I’ll have more time during the summer – as if the days increase from 24 [...]
No Comments Khalil on Aug 2nd 2009
And it is both more interesting and worth learning than calculus. Really.
No Comments Khalil on Jul 1st 2009
Filed under Academia,Fear,School,Teaching
The Best Email Ever
I spent much of yesterday compiling grades for my statistics students. Now I have one more class, my research methods course, to grade and extra credit from stats to add in before submitting final grades. I’m hoping to have that done by the end of the weekend, but we’ll see. They need to be done [...]
1 Comment Khalil on Jun 13th 2009
So I’ll start with the random. I was glad to see that Graduate Junction was back in the game. I don’t know if it was really gone or if my inability to get the page to load was a glitch somewhere between my computer and the rest of the world of the internet, but I [...]
No Comments Khalil on May 2nd 2009
Filed under Academia,Research,School,Wack
Another one bites the dust?
So as I was complaining about GradShare, I went to peep out Graduate Junction (note – I link the site in hopes that it comes back – it was everything I hoped GradShare would be… well, almost) and it was gone. I hope it is a technical blip and not a long term problem. I [...]
No Comments Khalil on Apr 12th 2009