Re: And then silence...

2002-05-06 Thread David Cooper
Thanks!!! I stand corrected. and to your comment: f-a-r t-o-o m-u-c-h t-i-m-e! Thanks again David Cooper >At 2:16 PM -0500 5/6/02, David Cooper wrote: >>as an aside, we were beginning to sound like "Teaching in Religious >>Studies" >>(personal

Re: And then silence...

2002-05-06 Thread David Cooper
as an aside, we were beginning to sound like "Teaching in Religious Studies" (personal opinion) Thanks David Cooper >Fellow tipsters, > >For the past several years I have enjoyed this list, and have learned a >great deal from others, particularly som

Re: Dissociative Identity Disorder

2002-05-03 Thread David Cooper
and the other was not. Remember, however, I am depending on an old, old, long-term memory. Hope this is not a confabulation. more soon if time presents itself. Thank you David Cooper University of Tennessee at Martin > > >Good Morning! J > > > > > >Today in Intr

Re: do you give grades?

2002-05-03 Thread David Cooper
In your school and its scheme of things, what is the meaningful difference between a D and a D+? Thanks David Cooper >have you ever given a grade to a student other than the one that was >computed? >I have a student whose course grade is a D,but I am thinking of allocating

Re: mandatory commencement attendance?

2002-04-24 Thread David Cooper
at UTMartin, if you are over 60, you do not have to attend under 60, you do have to attend. I think the reason has to do with the amount of walking involved in our situation. people buy their own regalia Thanks David Cooper >does your school have the above policy? >what are th

RE: Creationism as Science??

2002-03-20 Thread David Cooper
Excellent!! Thanks David Cooper University of Tennessee at Martin >For those who want empirical evidence of intelligent design in evolution, >check out my brief document at: >http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/docs00/Teddy-Bears.doc. It is a Word doc, >so you'll need

Re: Grading attendance weekly

2002-02-15 Thread David Cooper
"A"for attendance for the week. What will be the effect of the attendance grade on the academic course grade at the end of the semester? Thanks David Cooper >I am toying with the idea of grading attendance weekly.A student >who attends all three classes for the we

Re: info

2002-02-04 Thread David Cooper
believe it or not, in 46 years of teaching, I have never had this problem. Thanks David Cooper >do you require students be on time for exams? >Often I have a few straddlers coming in midway of the exam period. >I havw known teachers who require that a student be seated in place

Re: Hats and caps in class

2002-01-29 Thread David Cooper
No, I do not. Out of curiosity, did the confederate insignia identify the student as "red neck"? Thanks David Cooper University of TENNESSEE at Martin >do you ask students to take off their hats and caps in class? >One redneck student had a confederate insignia on his ca

Re: McArabism

2002-01-15 Thread David Cooper
Oh, and those causes are: incompetence (proven by the university), moral turpitude (this is probably what they got that professor on), state (not school) runs out of money, a dramatic decline in professor's area resulting in the need for far fewer faculty thanks David Cooper >E

Re: McArabism

2002-01-15 Thread David Cooper
Even with tenure you can be fired "with cause" but the burden of proof is on the university. Thanks David Cooper University of Tennessee at Martin >Well,a tenured Arab-American faculty prof at the University of South >Florida was fired because of his association with Pales

Re: Voluntary list of TIPS members

2002-01-09 Thread David Cooper
Please list: David Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of Tennessee at Martin >Hi all, > >I'm freshly back from NITOP (happy to have finally met several of you!) and >am ready for another year. =) > >This is my semiannual message to remind you of the vo