Thanks for this article Jim! I just got the news this
a. m. at Fall graduation that the dean’s committee had overturned the D I
gave to a student who wanted to graduate who I think is functionally illiterate.
I gave 600 points extra credit in a 1,000 point class and she still
earned only 622 points. I’ve asked on what grounds the
committee found the grade to be “unfair” and said I miss the good
old days when my chair would just change the grades of students who complained
without notifying me, versus forcing me into depressing, time consuming multiple
meetings where I have to “defend” my grading and myself from the
faculty presumed guilt. We are doing a grand disservice to our students
who need more help by passing them along but I’m afraid being the only
one who doesn’t just buys me more grief and doesn’t wind up helping
anyone. Virtually all our students are too poor to pay a shadow scholar
but obviously they don’t have to….May the waxing light of the sun
find us all in a better place! Happy Holidays colleagues …no matter
what!
Know Justice; Know Peace,
Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin
Professor of Communication
Media & Society Size Equity
Expert
ASU FSA/AFT Co-VP for Faculty
AEJMC MAC Membership Chair
Alabama State University
915 S. Jackson St.
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
(334) 229-6885
www.home.earthlink.net/~ekdaufin
Your research
and creative activity referrals are welcomed.
With all my
heart I want to work with and for kind, competent, strong people who love and
help me and I they. Ashe!
From: FOR THE MINORITIES
AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sernoe,
Jim
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: Shadow Scholar
Depressing,
yet required reading for all of us.
Dr.
Jim Sernoe
Chair,
Mass Communication Department
Midwestern
State University
"When
Life Hands You Lemons, Ask for Tequila and Salt, and Call Me"
(Author
Unknown)
From: Moran, Nathan
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 1:53 PM
To: Moran, Nathan
Subject: Shadow Scholar
Dearest Colleagues,
Please take a look at the attached article from The
Chronicle…It is a fascinating self-report from “academic
mercenary.”
All the Best,
Nate
Nathan R. Moran, Ph.D.
Chair, Criminal Justice Dept.
College of Health Sciences & Human Services
Direct Line: 940-397-4671
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Midwestern State University
3410 Taft Blvd.
Wichita Falls, TX 76308-2099
http://hs2.mwsu.edu/criminaljustice/index.asp (undergraduate
program)
http://hs2.mwsu.edu/healthandpublic/ (online
graduate program)
http://libarts.mwsu.edu/baas/index.asp (online
BAAS program)
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice;
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." -
Chinese Proverb
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