Wow,so many academicians have been fired and are under fire in Central Florida
that I am thinking of resurrecting William Buckley and hosting my own Firing
Line show live from Daytona Beach. The latest predicted to be casualty could be
Ken Sharples,the President of Daytona State College (formerl
Christopher D
Let it never be said that, despite our occasional differences, TIPSters are
not, in the end, on happy family. :-)
Chris
Like Google would say "Do you mean "one" (not on) happy family?"
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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On one hand I am continually surprised that people on this list take the time
to respond to the obvious trolls of this list "member", on the other I am happy
to see that the responses are of a nature that reflect a level of intellect
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I also would highlight (from Allen)
"...how one judges the case... "
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:04:26 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>To me,if your contract is not being renewed,you are implicitly being
>fired.
As Denzel Washington's character Alonzo Harris in the movie
"Training Day" said:
"It's not what you know but what you can prove".
An academic who doesn't ha
Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in a
post "Is Physics Difficult? [Hake (2010)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: Robert Kaiser of the Physics First List wrote
(paraphrasing): "Why are we still asking the silly question 'Should
child
Mike Palij wrote:
> Hugs and kisses.
>
Let it never be said that, despite our occasional differences, TIPSters
are not, in the end, on happy family. :-)
Chris
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To me,if your contract is not being renewed,you are implicitly being fired.
I had a colleague who would always write in the "Reasons for leaving" -
Non-renewal of fixed term contract,which really meant a firing.
But the sublimated expression for being fired is "The department is moving
in a new
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:37:17 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>Another prof has been fired at the University of Central Florida. It
>happened in the Health Sciences division where the prof refused
>to adopt a text for her course- CULTURALLY SENSITIVE
>HEALTH CARE.The prof objected to the negativ
Another prof has been fired at the University of Central Florida.It happened in
the Health Sciences division where the prof refused to adopt a text for her
course- CULTURALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE.The prof objected to the
negative stereotypes of blacks and other minorities
in the text.She is app
I was recently contacted by someone who invited me to take a look at the site
for "highly sensitive" people. Obviously the term isn't in the DSM and based
on my perusal of the site I have to say I'm a little suspect. Any thoughts on
this idea?
http://highlysensitive.org/
Michael
Michael Bri
Ed Pollak asked:
>
> > I distinctly remember reading that there are some (very few)
> > people for whom it is normal to get an hour or less sleep per
> > night.
>
> > Can anyone out there helpwith a reference? It's driving me
> > nuts.
Feeling sorry for someone being driven into nuts, I resp
The announcement of a royal wedding during the time the Brits have
experienced a few days of massive violent demonstrations and are currently
experiencing a downturn in the economy
does appear to be suspicious.
Btw,what is Prince William's last name? Mountbatten?
And is it true that the Royal
I don't have the time to read another of Allen essays, but skimming
through it, I am surprised that there is not mention of the fact that
Britain eventually (1872) did agree to pay damages to the US in the
amount of $15,500,000 (about $275 billion today) in no small part for
their actions durin
This right before my 8:00 class . . . I believe Dement mentions a case or two
in his book The Promise of Sleep. I think he says that none of these people
have been willing to come to a sleep lab to have their claims verified and
studied.
Joe
Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D.
Box 3077
Grove City College
Chris Green writes:
>"Sided with" was indeed too strong. It is true that Britain was
officially
>neutral, but they were, shall we say, sympathetic to the South
>(entirely on grounds of self-interest -- an independent Confederacy
>would be a very weak country, very much dependent on the British
>ap
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