3-for-3, Episode 1.1: Laptops in the Classroom, Natasha Trethewey, and Rage Against the Death of Metanarratives (Plus, extra-special guest Mitch Hedberg!)
Teaching for Fall 2013
The course description and booklist for the class I will be teaching in the Fall 2013 semester: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE.
“I’m Taking My Talents to a Four-Year College”: Rejecting the LeBronification of Tomorrow’s Workforce
Atossa Abrahamian of The New Inquiry is right: four years of undergraduate work (or six-plus years of postsecondary study) simply does not make for good worker bees. The same skills typically required of a successful college student — independent thinking, self-management, critical reflection, and a not-so-subtle aversion to established dogmas — are antithetical to those … Continue reading “I’m Taking My Talents to a Four-Year College”: Rejecting the LeBronification of Tomorrow’s Workforce
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