Someone save me from the Business-Positive Optimistic Student Emails.

"I am aware that you sent instructions for filling out my course schedule, but I'm sure this will suffice!" [sends completely unusable schedule missing half the key information]

"I look forward to working with you to resolve this issue!" [They missed a test, have no documentable excuse, and waited two weeks to contact me]

"I'm confident we can work out a satisfactory solution!" [They're getting an F in the course and it's week 8 of the semester]

#professor #frustration #jargon #business #ToxicPositivity

Today's 3-person team presentation...

Student 1 [reading from slides]: APA STYLE WHAT IS APA STYLE HEADINGS WHY ARE HEADINGS IMPORTANT HEADINGS PROVIDE GUIDE TO THE READER AND...

Student 2 [not looking at slides]: One thing to notice is that APA format isn't just about the low-level style elements. It's also about how to refer to marginalized groups in ways that are respectful of those groups' identities but are also fundamentally about avoiding common biases in scientific language and research...

Student 3 (reading from slides, eyes tracking side-to-side): citation format. citation. format. indicates where to find primary. sources. citation. format. should give all. necessary information...

Sometimes it's pretty obvious who did all the work.

#professor #highered #students

This kind of shit is so out of hand at this point I think we're past the point of ever returning to normalcy. The post-war Jewish golden age is fucking over, kids.

"#Professor #AbigailBornstein is a #Jewish #faculty member at #CCSF who became the target of repeated, public, and highly personalized attacks rooted in #antiSemitic tropes and threats. The most serious incident occurred during a public CCSF Board of Trustees meeting on May 29, 2025, when she became the victim of a prolonged, profanity-laced tirade.

At this meeting, #MariaSalazarColon, a CCSF staff member and Management Assistant in the Office of Student Conduct and Discipline, who is also the president of the campus chapter of #SEIU #Local1021, referred to Professor #Bornstein as a “colonizer,” mocked her Jewish surname (“Dumb-stine”), and told her to “shut the f*** up” multiple times."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/03/31/s-f-city-college-backs-jewish-professors-claim-of-antisemitic-harassment/

Looking through paper exams. Doing my basic grading thing, which includes marking in a way that is tamper-resistant in case of after-the-fact grade modifications. Then I realized I have not seen any evidence of this for a few years. I used to reliably get maybe one student a year who would bring back a marked paper and try to claim I had counted points wrong when they had actually changed marks. Nobody does that anymore. The children have forgotten the lore of the previous generations.

#professor #grading #KidsTheseDays

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

A friend of mine just said she was curious about her university's new CIO, so she searched for his CV, resume, etc., work history, or whatever. Then she kept searching Then she searched more. Then she used AI. After a few hours she came to the conclusion that he has no meaningful digital footprint, she can't find any CV or resume, can't find employment dates even for the couple of jobs where some evidence exists for his employment, can't find any reference to his dissertation (reportedly from Texas A&M in computer science), no reference to his dates of attendance at that university or his date of graduation... basically nothing.

Working at a university, making six figure, and no CV? That's just weird. Universities often make their admin candidates' CVs available to the faculty for review, but apparently his doesn't exist. Okay.

#mystery #academia #professor #highered #wtf

I have had my concerns about our student newspaper in the past, but I think maybe the kids are alright.

#journalism #ai #hellyeah #students #professor #highered

How Did Shreekant Patil Build a Global Business and Help Shape India’s Viksit Bharat Vision

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A6wpfPWaP/

#shreekantpatil #storyofsouls #Successstory #startupindiamentor #consultant #founder #news #nashik #maharashtra #weldman #mastertrainer #tradeadvisor #charteredengineer #India #Europe #Belgium #USA #ambassador #UN #SDG #professor #entrepreneurship #viksitbharat