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[theinevitable]

wombat-- I don't particularly care whether they keep him on or not. I am not planning on taking The History of Yoga, or "Environmental Sustainability and Communal Living." What was bothering me was my friends telling me that the Uni should keep him on even though he doesn't do his job, because that'd be the nice thing to do. And that I was a dick for not agreeing with this.

I have read most of the significant (ie: many-posted) older threads, but not all of them.

[wombat]

Oh, agreed. They should keep him because if they fire him for insufficient cause they will get sued, not to be nice.

But you know, teaching well is generally not a requirement at a large research university, which if I am not mistaken is the kind of place you attend?  No one ever seems to tell college applicants that if you want all your instructors to be good classroom teachers, you should apply to a small liberal arts college where quality teaching is the number one consideration in hiring and evaluation. Not a large university where many other factors have to be taken into consideration.  There are many reasons to go to such a place but you have to be willing to make some sacrifices as far as classroom teaching.

Note that I am desperately sticking to this and other thread-wandering topics because I was so horrified by Ray's hair that I am afraid to even go back and look at today's strip again.

[RMJ12345]

Note that I am desperately sticking to this and other thread-wandering topics because I was so horrified by Ray's hair that I am afraid to even go back and look at today's strip again.

What scared me wasn't the hair, it was the tiny little dimpled chin. Perfect, but ew.

[theinevitable]

oh, also, he doesn't do research.

Originally the argument was "so what if he doesn't do research! he should still be able to teach!"
now they are keeping him on for night classes, and summer classes. So it's "he should get full pay, and health care!"

apparently some people like him a lot, though. In the way you liked your high-school teachers who let you talk about cool stuff in class, and didn't assign much work.

yeah, I have nothing worthwhile to say about the Cat Gay Porn.

[V-Adore]

TOUAMB: We're about Exegesis. And, uh, wandering from topic when it suits the thread. (I have nothing more to say about the strip either, honestly, but I do love the word "exegesis.")

[Drastic Action]

But you know, teaching well is generally not a requirement at a large research university, which if I am not mistaken is the kind of place you attend?  No one ever seems to tell college applicants that if you want all your instructors to be good classroom teachers, you should apply to a small liberal arts college where quality teaching is the number one consideration in hiring and evaluation. Not a large university where many other factors have to be taken into consideration.  There are many reasons to go to such a place but you have to be willing to make some sacrifices as far as classroom teaching.

I went to a rather small (in terms of campus size) tech school, and god damn were there a lot of awful teachers.  While there were a handful of excellent computer science professors, it was definitely a small percentage, while inexplicably (for such a tech school), all of the humanities professors seemed extremely competent and interesting.  But perhaps this is just a side-effect of technology-related courses: those who are exceptionally into such things (enough so to teach them) probably have not developed the social interaction skills required to be a compelling lecturer, perhaps?

So it feels like all of my programmin' knowledge has come from my own personal studies or when I went beyond the project requirements, and now I wish I had pursued a degree more aligned with photography or literature, just because I think it would have been a much more enlightening experience.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Rod, The gay cat porn actor.
 AugustWest, Esq.

[RMJ12345]

That is way creepy. Can'd.

[AugustWest]

HEY!

[Bobby Isosceles]

Rod, The gay cat porn actor.
AugustWest, Esq.

CAN.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Fuck you for making me laugh out loud at work!

JUST FUCK YOU CANN'D STYLEZ!

Wait... oh yeah, you're two different people. Keep forgetting.

[Doc]

I had an interesting point to make about the merits of good teaching vs. expertise in a particular subject area and which should be valued in tertiary level education but that just went out the fuck*ng window. A can for A-CAP and a can for AW; because it's rough looking like  a gay porn star cartoon cat.

[side_show]

Rod, The gay cat porn actor.
AugustWest, Esq.

Good job.

I don't have photoshop, but if I did, I'd be putting some cat ears on Aug in the picture.  Anybody?  Anybody?

A can for the man who's cartoon twin takes it in the can, and one for A-CAP for posting it too.

[iron_felix]

This was done in Seashore, not Photoshop, but what the hell:

[Arachno-capitalist]

(My cat is actually standing up in that picture. It is so fat and fluffy that her belly brushes the floor as it moves.)