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Mr. Wonderful

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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de le Semaine: October 17
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Two pairs of postings. Two imporant issues. Two important lessons. Two sets of winners. Too close to rank. Too good to ignore. Touche to Boss Man, Invictus, Jameela Lares, and New Adjunct. The Citation de la Semaine  selection committee identified two pairs of companion statements for this week's awards:
 
A.  The WalMartization of  higher education
 
      1.  Boss Man:  "Herein lies the problem . . . you folks are confused. You're looking for a professional academic culture where administrators are faculty members and colleagues first . . . managers second. What you need to understand is that USM is your employer . . . you need to teach your classes and shut up. You should have no opinion other than the one the administration gives you. When you realize this, you won't get so upset at decisions/actions."
 
      2. Invictus: "I have observed over the past decade an increasing tendency for college administrators to refer to "employees" and not "teachers" or "professors." In my mind, this is part of the WalMartization of higher education."
 
 
 
B. Institutional memory
 
    1. Jameela Lares:  "One of the lessons of bibliographic history is that new technologies do not displace old ones.  We did not stop writing by hand with the invention of the printing press, and we have not stopped printing books with the advent of the internet.  But if we are going to stop archiving knowledge because we can't make it a priority to find "the dollars to do so, we are virtually burning books.  We are hardly better than those who with a short-sighted and egoistic zeal piled up volumes in German cities and ignited them because they thought they had found some superior knowledge that had rendered Learning obsolete,"
 
     2. New Adjunct: "An intimate knowledge of the past is always feared by the forces of false progress. They are afraid we will remember those schemes didn't work last time nor the time before."
 
 
Touche! And congratulations from the entire Mr. Wonderful organization.


 


 
 

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New Adjunct

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I am humbled and honored. However, we must note that the phrase "an intimate knowledge of history" is a direct re-quotation from Jameela's post, wherein she is quoting C.S. Lewis. I should have enclosed it in " "
But thank you anyway.

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Sorry, "an intimate knowledge of the past." Cheez, I can't even quote myself right.

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Jameela Lares

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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de le Semaine: October 17
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Thanks!  I'm honored.



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