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46. Multiple choice tests are okay actually but just use them for low stakes assignments

47. Shocker: it’s easier to have a VP for diversity than to have diversity in a syllabus

48. Some critics of university hiring practices need to familiarize themselves with employment law

49. Yeah actually the faculty are the core employees of the institution but also their function is special not themselves as people—be nice

50. Colleges should be talking openly with faculty about the shrinking enrollments of the 2020s in many parts of the US

51. Community colleges are heroes

52. Foundations could counter disinformation by funding open textbooks and videos

53. The George Mason Econ videos are great for non-Econ major expositions of core Econ topics

54. Students confuse partisan slant with ideological stance

55. Faculty are crap at time management

56. Faculty are crap at thinking through trade offs

56. Dangerous opinion I guess but: I dislike having all social activities moved to the working day, since that’s when I work

57. We faculty leave a lot of data about student confusion on the table—we should revise lectures with more precise understanding and testing

58. F me if I know how to do that with very little time and resources

59. Students don’t use the Web anymore—they use apps

60. F whoever told people that Wikipedia isn’t reliable, now students get info from HH1488SS on YouTube

61. It’s okay to talk about the fun parts of your discipline in early classes

62. Classroom architecture belies the idea that universities want anything besides lecture-test

63. Students have no idea how little guidance we are given on accessibility issues

64. The .5% of students who are dishonest spoil instructors for the other 99.5% of students

65. My syllabus is so long because you won’t believe how much time I wasted when it was short

66. The entire academic apparatus at times seems to be geared toward making students hate learning

67. Gen-eds should be special classes—politics for poets, poetry for physicists, etc—and they should be as exciting as possible

68. All gen eds should be pass fail

69. Profs: put a recent headshot on your web site so I can use it in my slides

70. I don’t do that, either

71. Right wing groups have done real harm to classrooms with all their snitch sites

72. But also come on there were definitely some way biased lectures out there

73. 71 and 72 will get loud response but most faculty agree with them

74. The division isn’t teaching university vs research university but faculty who have biggest impact on the world through teaching vs those through research (and public engagement)