Posted by Robert Ostrow
Awhile back I wrote about the problems that faculty members were having with administrators who needed to cut the jobs of adjunct professors, staff and would not hire new staff or instructors. A sociology faculty member decided to lead a protest against two administrators, who said, a certain u...
Posted by Robert Ostrow
In reading these fine articles on Profology, it has caused me to ask this question, about college teaching. When considering the goals of instructing students in variuos disciplines, are we merely resocializing them for their future? When we tell them to do this or that, and set certain expectations...
Posted by Melissa Hudler
How many times have you said to yourself, your colleagues, or to anyone who would listen, “I wish my students were able to . . .”? Whether you have only two wishes or enough to rival a 6 year-old’s Christmas list, your wish(es) for your students simply won't come...
Posted by Robert Ostrow
Hello everyone, I want to say thaat this topic has been on my mind for a long time. The argument is whether instructors should not allow the students to use the internet, to construct a term paper, or allow them to use internet technology for the entire paper. Well, I believe that students need to a...
Posted by Robert Ostrow
In discussing teacher evaluations we might have forgotten one method of an important facet of evaluating instructors. At Macomb Community College, in Roseville Michigan, I taught my specialty course Social Problems to many students over a two year period. One of the rules in the sociology depa...
Posted by C. Sturgeon
This past semester "spring 2015" I taught a course that I have been teaching since 1999. I saw the need for a web design course in communications, PR, and business students, so I developed the course and have been the only teacher of the course since day one. Well, I have tweaked the cou...
Posted by Melissa Hudler
The first text we discuss in my Literature of Illness and Trauma course is the Introduction to The Decameron. I like to begin with this text because it touches, quite violently, upon issues of community and survival in the face of tragedy. I suppose, then, that I should say that this text ...
Posted by Robert Ostrow
About a year ago I met this young man from Mexico who wanted to learn how to write good English so people would understand him. Now it is imperative that sociologists write clearly as much as possible, if their research, is to be used and understood. So having remembered that a Dr. Howard Becker, wr...
Posted by Andrew Robinson
This is a riposte to the article in Huffington Post by a Professor of Philosophy, written to students as “Message to My Freshman Students”. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-m-parsons/message-to-my-freshman-st_b_7275016.html This article left me shaking my head. I am a profes...
Posted by Robert Ostrow
I was was streaming a particular criminal trial on the computer, when a professor, got up on the stand and said that students do not really learn anything in their undergraduate programs. The theory of this comment is that you do not learn anything until you go to graduate school. So what we ...