akillesheel
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as is "woman," lmao
UNC system president orders all class syllabuses to be published as public records
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Didn’t Jesse call blacks “Fred?”
No one knows where it came from; but, Jesse did so.
In Jesse-speak, in public, blacks were “Freds.”
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Jesse was skeered after he rode with his (Don Bosco) deedy as a little boy to the Gastonia riots (Loray Mill strike - Wikipedia) Jesse’s dad was both th police/fire chief in Monroe) in 1929. Kind of a formative moment for young Jesse no doubt and always made him afraid of “others”.
He never got over it and NC buried it in our state history like the Wilmington coup. Yet UNC and good folks in the system that never mentioned it made me research and dig it out during the Hunt/Helms races when Bob Windsor (failed RE developer) published a shitty Fox News like paper at Star Point calling Jim Hunt gay.
Jesse was a tall yet very small man. He was owned by his father in law and the banking industry. He’s the early version of the PTL Club and likely future MAGA denier members! Unfortunately many North Carolinians are not able to translate nor live up to the state motto:
“Esse Quam Videri”
He never got over it and NC buried it in our state history like the Wilmington coup. Yet UNC and good folks in the system that never mentioned it made me research and dig it out during the Hunt/Helms races when Bob Windsor (failed RE developer) published a shitty Fox News like paper at Star Point calling Jim Hunt gay.
Jesse was a tall yet very small man. He was owned by his father in law and the banking industry. He’s the early version of the PTL Club and likely future MAGA denier members! Unfortunately many North Carolinians are not able to translate nor live up to the state motto:
“Esse Quam Videri”
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He probably did ZOO. Sure you are right
I do remember as like a 10 yr old hearing the other word on wRAL
ChileG
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The hard a.
donbosco
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"There had also been protest activities by A&T students throughout the mid and late 1950s. One noted incident occurred in 1955 when then-North Carolina governor Luther Hodges spoke before a crowd of students on campus. Hodges advocated voluntary segregation and asked the all-black North Carolina Teachers Association to endorse racial separation in schools. During his A&T visit, Hodges criticized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and said “nigra” – a mispronunciation of “negro” generally considered offensive – several times in his speech. Students responded by making noises to distract the governor, who then stormed out of the room in humiliation."
Chronicled in William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 83-84.
Chronicled in William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 83-84.
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ugghh
My maternal grandfather used “nigra.” Mom had had to tell him the N-word was unacceptable.
My maternal grandmother taught Sunday School at the First Baptist Church for years. This little black boy played with the little white kids before and after Sunday School. He would sit right outside the door during the lesson.
One Sunday morning it was cold and raining; so, she invited the little boy inside and gave him a chair to sit in.
That afternoon the proud leaders of the First Baptist Church stopped by her home to admonish her and tell her no “nigras” inside the classrooms.
She never darkened the Baptist Church’s doors again.
She died in a car crash when my Mom was pregnant with me. Mom is certain her father wouldn’t have used “nigra” or “n****r” if she’d lived.
My maternal grandmother taught Sunday School at the First Baptist Church for years. This little black boy played with the little white kids before and after Sunday School. He would sit right outside the door during the lesson.
One Sunday morning it was cold and raining; so, she invited the little boy inside and gave him a chair to sit in.
That afternoon the proud leaders of the First Baptist Church stopped by her home to admonish her and tell her no “nigras” inside the classrooms.
She never darkened the Baptist Church’s doors again.
She died in a car crash when my Mom was pregnant with me. Mom is certain her father wouldn’t have used “nigra” or “n****r” if she’d lived.
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Go back to the one page… simply state the course objectives (omitting any hot button terminology) and how measurement and assessment will be meted out. Post your office hours, how you can contacted, lab times, attendance policy and be done with it.
Like a resumè, no need to get too verbose.
And no need to put a target on your back.
Like a resumè, no need to get too verbose.
And no need to put a target on your back.
donbosco
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Yep...absolute minimum. That said, as a rule the various faculty handbooks of colleges and universities do have specs for syllabi.
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Example
Syllabus and Class Policies
The course syllabus is an essential tool in facilitating effective teaching and learning. It provides an instructor with the opportunity to describe the overall goals and structure of a course, while clearly communicating expectations and responsibilities of students. An effective syllabus helps students understand not only specific course requirements but also how classroom activities fit into a meaningful instructional framework. A complete syllabus should be distributed by the end of the first week of class.
All syllabi for _____________* (A UNC System School) courses must contain the following elements:
- Basic course information: course name and number, room location, days and times of class meetings
- Instructor information: name, contact information, office location and office hours
- The place of the course in the overall curriculum: prerequisites (if any), whether the course fulfills any university requirements or requirements for the major/minor of the course’s home department
- Course goals or objectives, including student learning outcomes
- Required and recommended readings or other course materials
- Course requirements: description and due dates (if known in advance) of tests, presentations, and assignments; date and time of final exam
- Grade determination: explanation of how assignments are weighted and how final grades are determined, whether instructor uses +/- grading
- Attendance policy
- Policy regarding academic integrity
- Tentative class schedule, including topics of course and associated dates of their coverage (if known in advance)
- Statement regarding accommodations for students with disabilities, e.g., “UNC Asheville is committed to making courses accessible to persons with documented disabilities. Students requiring reasonable accommodations must register with the Office of Academic Accessibility by providing supporting documentation. All information provided will remain confidential. For more information, please contact the Office of Academic Accessibility (insert contact information).”
- Other course policies which may include policy on late or missing assignments, use of technology in the classroom, etc.
In addition, recommended syllabi elements include:
- A statement that the syllabus is subject to change, and if changes are made, the form through which they will be clearly communicated to students
- Expectations regarding class participation and other classroom behaviors
- Information regarding use of a content management system (e.g., Moodle) and other required instructional technology programs
- Instructor’s pedagogical approach
- Resources for students who are struggling (e.g., Writing Center, tutoring opportunities)
- Inclement weather policy
- A link to the Bias Incident Report
Centerpiece
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Indeed. All of which can be included on a one page, front and back single spaced. Bare minimum. Nothing more, nothing less. None of which would be or could be considered worthy of copy rights.
Does any kid actually read the syllabus anymore? And few, if any will read a 12 pager. Also, a lot of that stuff (like inclement weather policy, etc.) should be school-wide and covered in the student handbook and reviewed during orientation.
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Totally get it. I retired from teaching in public high school in 2017 (last day in the class room was 2013 - as I took and admin job after that.) We had totally gone to an online attendance/syllabus and even daily lesson plans system which were public record and any student, parent, administrator has/had access to it. It was a total hassle and really needless and uncalled for. I'm guessing this is the same with this "LMS" of which you speak.
It all reminds me of my wife (retired H.S. Spanish teacher) and what she did back before it all went "digital". Our Principal walked into to her class room to do an unannounced "snap shot observation" and exclaimed: "Where are your objectives and goals for this class? I don't see them written on the board or overhead?"
My wife calmly explained: "They're up on the board, written in Spanish."
He huffed: "I can't read that, who can read that?!"
Wife: "Everyone sitting in this level four AP Spanish class".
Not to be outdone - he goes on: "Well let me see your lesson plans!"
Wife: "Which ones? The ones I actually utilize or the ones I typed up on the silly lesson plan template you require?"
Lesson: Don't fuck with my wife. You'll lose.
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UNC system faculty condemn proposed policy disclosing course materials to public • NC Newsline
Backers of the proposal say it’s a necessary move to restore trust, while opponents raised concerns over harassment of faculty and students.
ncnewsline.com
"The petition to UNC System President Peter Hans says the proposal would harm faculty and students because it would invite “attacks on UNC System courses,” leading them to be “weaponized against faculty and departments through complaints about ‘political’ or controversial concepts.”
“The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by further opening our public universities and colleges to bad-faith critique and extremist threats,” the petition reads. “This move would endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack the free inquiry on our campuses.”
Hans, the UNC System president, wrote in an op-ed Thursday morning that the policy shift is a necessary measure for confronting “dangerously low trust in some of society’s most important institutions.”
“There is no question that making course syllabi publicly available will mean hearing feedback and criticism from people who may disagree with what’s being taught or how it’s being presented,” Hans wrote. “We will do everything we can to safeguard faculty and staff who may be subject to threats or intimidation simply for doing their jobs.”
Until now, the 16 universities within the UNC system have been free to set individual policies on how course syllabi should be classified. Many, such as NC State, consider course syllabi to be the intellectual property of the professors who write them, and thus not subject to public records disclosure requirements.
Under the new proposal, all course syllabi throughout the system would be searchable in a centralized database, similar to measures adopted by public university systems in Texas, Georgia, and Florida.
UNC System spokesperson Andy Wallace said opening course syllabi to the public is aimed at providing transparency both for the community and for prospective students.
“The System Office has worked to seek input from elected faculty representatives and will consider that feedback before a regulation is implemented,” Wallace said. “A common standard would clarify that syllabi are part of faculty’s teaching duties as public employees and should be available for tuition-paying students and taxpayers to see.”
In an interview Thursday, NC State creative writing professor Belle Boggs said that faculty only learned about the impending change late last week.
“This has been done in such a secretive, backroom, closed door way that it absolutely violates faculty governance,” said Boggs, who serves as president of the North Carolina chapter of the American Association of University Professors. “The most perilous aspect of this policy is the real physical threat that it poses to students and faculty.”
Boggs said UNC faculty already feel like they’re under surveillance. Some classes at UNC Charlotte and other campuses this year have come to a halt due to outside individuals attempting to film them.
A UNC Charlotte staff member who was secretly recorded making comments about not abiding the suspension of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies was terminated earlier this year. Dwayne Dixon, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, was temporarily suspended in September after commentators sought to link him to a group that made light of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
“This feels like an invitation to many more people who are not necessarily experts in the areas in which our faculty teach to doxx faculty, to harass faculty, to harass classes and students,” Boggs said. “When faculty are threatened and harassed, that takes resources away from all of us because some sort of threat assessment has to be made.”
UNC Charlotte professors Annelise Mennicke and Caitlin Schroering wrote in an NC Newsline commentary that it will also pressure faculty to “self-censor the content of their courses to avoid being pulled into the political spotlight.”
“As a result, students will be exposed to a smaller range of viewpoints, which is antithetical to the UNC system’s own ‘Equality Policy,’” the professors wrote. “Students need to be exposed to a range of ideas so that they can develop their own thoughts and opinions.”
The petition is set to be delivered to Hans’s Raleigh office at noon on Friday, preceded by a demonstration."
No idea as to whether or not the actions noted in the final sentence happened or not.
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The faculty concerns about being harassed by the public won't matter to Hans because Hans - or at least those who hold the power and oversee him - is on the side of those who will be doing the harassment.UNC system faculty condemn proposed policy disclosing course materials to public • NC Newsline
Backers of the proposal say it’s a necessary move to restore trust, while opponents raised concerns over harassment of faculty and students.
"The petition to UNC System President Peter Hans says the proposal would harm faculty and students because it would invite “attacks on UNC System courses,” leading them to be “weaponized against faculty and departments through complaints about ‘political’ or controversial concepts.”
“The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by further opening our public universities and colleges to bad-faith critique and extremist threats,” the petition reads. “This move would endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack the free inquiry on our campuses.”
Hans, the UNC System president, wrote in an op-ed Thursday morning that the policy shift is a necessary measure for confronting “dangerously low trust in some of society’s most important institutions.”
“There is no question that making course syllabi publicly available will mean hearing feedback and criticism from people who may disagree with what’s being taught or how it’s being presented,” Hans wrote. “We will do everything we can to safeguard faculty and staff who may be subject to threats or intimidation simply for doing their jobs.”
Until now, the 16 universities within the UNC system have been free to set individual policies on how course syllabi should be classified. Many, such as NC State, consider course syllabi to be the intellectual property of the professors who write them, and thus not subject to public records disclosure requirements.
Under the new proposal, all course syllabi throughout the system would be searchable in a centralized database, similar to measures adopted by public university systems in Texas, Georgia, and Florida.
UNC System spokesperson Andy Wallace said opening course syllabi to the public is aimed at providing transparency both for the community and for prospective students.
“The System Office has worked to seek input from elected faculty representatives and will consider that feedback before a regulation is implemented,” Wallace said. “A common standard would clarify that syllabi are part of faculty’s teaching duties as public employees and should be available for tuition-paying students and taxpayers to see.”
In an interview Thursday, NC State creative writing professor Belle Boggs said that faculty only learned about the impending change late last week.
“This has been done in such a secretive, backroom, closed door way that it absolutely violates faculty governance,” said Boggs, who serves as president of the North Carolina chapter of the American Association of University Professors. “The most perilous aspect of this policy is the real physical threat that it poses to students and faculty.”
Boggs said UNC faculty already feel like they’re under surveillance. Some classes at UNC Charlotte and other campuses this year have come to a halt due to outside individuals attempting to film them.
A UNC Charlotte staff member who was secretly recorded making comments about not abiding the suspension of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies was terminated earlier this year. Dwayne Dixon, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, was temporarily suspended in September after commentators sought to link him to a group that made light of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
“This feels like an invitation to many more people who are not necessarily experts in the areas in which our faculty teach to doxx faculty, to harass faculty, to harass classes and students,” Boggs said. “When faculty are threatened and harassed, that takes resources away from all of us because some sort of threat assessment has to be made.”
UNC Charlotte professors Annelise Mennicke and Caitlin Schroering wrote in an NC Newsline commentary that it will also pressure faculty to “self-censor the content of their courses to avoid being pulled into the political spotlight.”
“As a result, students will be exposed to a smaller range of viewpoints, which is antithetical to the UNC system’s own ‘Equality Policy,’” the professors wrote. “Students need to be exposed to a range of ideas so that they can develop their own thoughts and opinions.”
The petition is set to be delivered to Hans’s Raleigh office at noon on Friday, preceded by a demonstration."
No idea as to whether or not the actions noted in the final sentence happened or not.