MEMBER BLOG TAG: professors
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:15PM | | | | Online Teaching | Tags: Online education, higher education, professors
| | | | Institutions of higher education almost always seem to be much less than the sum of their parts. Individually, professors are generally open, engaging people, who become animated simply at the mention of their teaching and research. But most of that passion is dissipated in office politics, as they try to negotiate all of the elaborate protocols imposed by the departmental bureaucracies and their corporate representatives. More than once, I have a sad witness as many lovely, gentle scholars were reduced to unseemly bickering and feuding, when they could find no other response to an institutional crisis. I have never been able to fully comprehend, much less accept, this gap between the personal and institutional faces of the scholarly vocation. Yes, our... | | | | | |
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