So you’re teaching a course or two this summer. Most colleges have a lot of fun stuff going on during the summer. Summer is a time of free concerts on campus. There are summer camps for big and little kids, internships, and volunteer opportunities. A big easy. Most students expect a summer course to mirror Read More

A couple weeks ago, Irwin Horwitz, a Professor at Texas A&M lost it. He gave all his students F’s and abandoned the course before the end of the semester. A rational, lucid person doesn’t normally behave like this. These are the acts of a person at the end of all his wits. This guy felt powerless Read More

So you got the funding. Terrific. Now to find 30 middle school students who want to spend six weeks in the Summer writing poetry on campus. No, you said in the proposal that you’d get 40 students. And that they’d be from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM with a B average in math. Doesn’t matter how Read More