Education talk

[MWB]

Did you have to close your eyes and focus on breathing? That’s what we had to do. I declined.

Yes. Yes we did. Box breathing nonsense.

I found it annoying and not stress relieving. Now I’m supposed to have my students do it.

[dodint]

Might there be support for the position that a teacher, an influencer of developing impressionable minds, who thinks assassination/violence is the answer to solving an ideological dispute shouldn't be teaching anywhere at all? That's not a disagreement about classroom demeanor; it's a defective mindset incompatible with functioning in society.

I agree completely. The problem is, there isn’t anything beyond hearsay that this happened. It’s currently being looked into by the school administration, but because of parents going to social media instead of the administration to start with, it doesn’t matter what really happened.

Ah, got it.

[NTP66]

I’ve gotta think that adults would be less likely to benefit from that than kids, so maybe your kids will get some use out of it. Most of it sounded like hippie BS to me, but the woman explaining it to us didn’t do herself any favors by coming off batshit crazy.

[Tomas]

[count2infinity]

Psh... it's just a piece of paper.

[dodint]

Today is a good day. My Long Paper* research project has been accepted and graded. It was the last requirement to graduate. I will get my piece of paper in about a month, and walk at commencement in May. Feels good. I have been going to school near continously since kindergarten (though at times not very well) and it is a nice feeling to complete my terminal degree. If I ever go back it will be as an adjunct, or to learn how to weld.

I never walked for my AAS, BA, or MS so May will be fun.

*Exploring Lemon Law Statutory Construction and Evolution in the Commonwealth

[count2infinity]

So what will this degree be?

[count2infinity]

Also, congrats.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Awesome

[dodint]

So what will this degree be?

My last one.

Just a run of the mill Juris Doctor, I didn't favor any of the specialty tracks my school offered. I crafted my degree plan towards data protection concerns but nothing I could certify.

I want to practice in mostly consumer protection areas so none of that fancy tech stuff will apply anyway. Open my own one lawyer firm and work for myself.

[MWB]

Congrats!

[Gaucho]

[MWB]

[dodint]

Move panel 9 to panel 7 and bump them over and you have exactly where I'm at right now.

[Gaucho]

[Freddy Rumsen]

So I switched from doing a "professional doctorate" into an honest to goodness Ph.D program.

#Imnotsmart

[DigitalGypsy66]

Still at Erskine?

[dodint]

A step back, imo.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Still at Erskine?

No. Another University in that part of the State.

[DigitalGypsy66]

With a denomination in its name?

[Freddy Rumsen]

With a denomination in its name?

No, it has a designation marking it out as more than local.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Gotcha.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Over all, about 60 percent of public and private institutions responding to the survey missed their enrollment goals, although private colleges were more likely to miss their goals by a wider margin. Sixty-seven percent of institutions did not meet their net-revenue goals, with public institutions hurting slightly more.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/At-th ... S3czTk9yZw

[NTP66]

Some colleges started offering financial packages to change course, and it worked. I still don't see how the obvious answer to this is to first lower tuition costs, but perhaps I'm just naive.

[DigitalGypsy66]

We met our goal this year, but had to offer large tuition discounts to get students here. Not good for budgets, obviously. If it wasn't for our previous president being caught with a student in the back of his college-issued car by police at the local Cook Out, we would probably be in budget lockdown mode. He and his $300K salary are off the books.

The ways to increase enrollment are few and expensive: add sports or new programs. Or in our case, both. We've added acrobatics and tumbling and a BS in Nursing will start in 2022.

The problem with those is how expensive those programs cost. Our fieldhouse are only a few years old, and there are days when they run out of locker rooms for all of the various teams playing or practicing at the same time. We had a study conducted on the feasibility of football, and it would have cost $16 million to upgrade facilities, add a stadium, build residence halls, increase faculty and staff, and so on. That's not happening, and that's about the only major sport we don't already have.

Nurses are critically needed in the US, so this program is a no brainer. We're teaming up with a local hospital to provide teaching space and actual patients to work on/with etc. We'll still need to upgrade our current biology and chemistry offerings and labs spaces to accommodate the 25 nursing student cohort. Plus, adding a Dean of Nursing, who'll make $150K or so.