Death Throes Of The University: General Education Transformed: How We Can, Why We Must
I threw up a little in my brain:
Shit, man. This is no laughing matter. Just read that goddamned nonsense edubabble. That's not about universities. That's about some shithead successor institution SKOOL2k or MULTIVERSITY4U. Vocationland! WTF ever.
If we let these people take over, then universities belong dead.
This publication calls for a re-envisioning of general education with clear, purposeful pathways for all students, allowing them to actively demonstrate their learning through high-impact practices and teaching strategies that are transferable across disciplines, [sic] departments, institutions, and even state systems. Reflecting the core vision articulated in General Education Maps and Markers, it addresses student success in terms of both college completion and achievement of essential twenty-first-century learning outcomes, including those articulated in LEAP and in Lumina Foundation's Degree Qualifications Profile. The publication also addresses how this general education framework helps to foster essential capacities for career, citizenship, and global engagement for today's diverse and mobile students. This is an excellent resource for general education reform and curriculum committees. [My emphasis]Between the PC left, the vocationalizing right, and these clueless, shit-for-brains educrats, the Ivory Tower is...besieged like...Minas Tirith... Y'know...by...the forces of Mordor, and the Easterlings, and the Haradrim. Get it?
Shit, man. This is no laughing matter. Just read that goddamned nonsense edubabble. That's not about universities. That's about some shithead successor institution SKOOL2k or MULTIVERSITY4U. Vocationland! WTF ever.
If we let these people take over, then universities belong dead.
posted by Winston Smith at
12:14 AM
6 Comments:
I'm assuming that's a vanity press, where the desperate go to publish--or perish?
You wish.
I'm pretty sure this is basically an official publication of the AAC&U. I've heard Ged Ed types at my own school fawn over this kind of shit...maybe this *very* shit.
Hmm. Not good. I looked at the selection there, and it looks like there might be a few good publications amidst the drek.
On a different topic: why doesn't travelling get called, like, all the time in basketball games? I watched only a little this year. Players weren't bothering to maintain a pivot, never mind the nonsense on driving to the hoop.
Because basketball played with actual adherence to the rules isn’t IN-YO-FACE-MUDDA-FUCKA awesome enough.
That sort of thing was why I quit playing a long while back. No calls for anything. Charging? Traveling? whatevs. LET ME SEE YOU DUNK IT YAAAAY!
(But since no one teaches any history, no one has any way of knowing it was ever any different...)
Don't as *me* to explain basketball officiating.
My only real thought is: it's an *extremely* approximate thing. The game is just too fast and there's too much going on, and you've got to just expect that tough calls are going to be wrong a *lot.* If you can't put up with that, it's not the game for you.
The worst part IMO is the semi-institutionalized practice of "letting 'em play" at the end of games. That is, roughly: suspending the rules when they matter the most.
My guess is that this is an acknowledgement that the officiating is approximate at best--that the refs are about as likely to make things worse under such conditions, and that the least-bad course of action is to just stay out of it unless forced not to.
Also, the refs are part-timers who love to ref, and making the wrong calls against the wrong coach (not naming any names...) can cost them their avocation...
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