The fall semester at NDSU started this past week and it reminded me of how much I love to see bright, shiny faces at the start of a new academic year. My classes typically have a blend of former and new students, but after a summer away even the students who have had me before [...]
Tag: teaching
End of semester amnesia…
The end of the semester is always a hectic time. Students are frantically completing end of the semester projects and readying themselves for tests; faculty are preparing themselves for end of the semester grading and student questions about missing grades; and, staff are trying to tolerate increasingly stressed students and faculty. The semesters always start [...]
Making my mark on the world…
Mike is busy this weekend working on a custom furniture order. He is outside working his fanny off. Well, he is figuratively working his fanny off - as he really has a fairly limited fanny. I wonder it that was a pun - figuratively working one's fanny off - it seems like a pun. I [...]
Who is this Cheyenne she speaks of?
The other team…
Let me say at the outset that I am thrilled at the success NDSU's football program has enjoyed in recent years. The Bison are number one - squared. And frankly, the odds are quite good that their number one status may be cubed by season's end. This is exciting stuff this championship team status! The [...]
Validation.
Validation presents itself in many ways. Today it arrived via a graduating student's visit. In the short hour that we visited I was delighted to learn that he realized that so many of the things we have students do in our program added up to more than the sum of their parts. He learned this [...]
Grading B-I-N-G-O
It is that time of year again - grading time. I always enter this period with optimism, but about halfway in my optimism starts to degrade and I begin thinking of quicker, less painful ways to grade. My favorite creative idea for grading when I hit this point in the grading crunch is to throw [...]
THE NEW FORTY 