The 2009 Patterson School Crisis Simulation has ended. Coverage of the simulation was provided by the UK School of Journalism, and can be found here (start with the very bottom post and work your way up). The story was this: A Panamanian flagged, Pakistani owned...
teaching
I normally have a post each semester about what I'm teaching. This semester I've let events get away from me a bit, but no time like the present. The courses.
Aye....the key is that these two statements are very different:Jason Greenwood, a senior kinesiology major at the University of Maryland echoed that view.“I think putting in a lot of effort.
Ah, the first day of class.... nothing like coming into the office, pouring yourself a cup of coffee, then noticing that you didn't quite finish the cup of coffee that you poured for yourself on the last day of class in April. Anyway, here are...
I was in the middle of arguing with Lemuel Pitkin about John Holbo's post about this blog post by Stanley Fish, when for some reason the crooked timber supercomputer decided.
For lack of a better topic to post on, here are my final exam questions. In both cases the students had roughly two hours to write on their choice of.
Interesting:Late last month, as students returned from spring break, the University of Chicago Law School announced that Internet access would be blocked from classrooms. While individual professors at law schools have created policies banning laptops or allowing them only for specific uses — and while...
Anyone know any good academic/policy oriented articles on Spanish security policy? Or, really, anything at all about Spanish security policy?
PTJ has some additional thoughts, and Dan Drezner weighs in here.To respond in some detail, I'm deeply uncomfortable with the wall that PTJ wants to erect between scholarship and policy..
. . . I'm wondering if I should send the following e-mail to the dozen or so students who warm the chairs in my Wednesday night course:Folks-As some of you might have noticed, I was not at all happy with our class session this evening....
Over at Duck, PTJ has an interesting post about a student who decided to pursue a terminal MA in international relations in order to "certify idealism". PTJ is a bit.
From a mound of student essays I'm in the midst of grading:The abolition of slavery following the [civil] war was a great victory for African Americans, especially those living in.