By Kat Kiefer-Newman I've been sick. Very, very sick. We all get sick, I know. This Fall semester, though, the weather seems especially chaotic, and my students…
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By Kat Kiefer-Newman Note: The following word "lisense" is in no way the fault of my indispensible and acurate-spelling editor. I have another sore throat, and the damp-rainy…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman It never fails: Students always complain about having to go to class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Hey! I don't like having to report to…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I hate tests. Maybe that's an odd confession from an instructor, but it's true. It doesn't matter if it's an academic test, either. I…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Halloween. This really doesn't matter much in the college classroom, I know; except when it does (like if class falls on Halloween, or the…
By Stanley Fish Last week, as I was preparing a presentation for still another conference on the fate of the liberal arts in our time, two…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Yesterday was the California Shake-Out. This feels like a statewide acknowledgment that the world really will end in 2012 (the year that the Mayan…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I was late. It almost never happens, but this semester I have an eight o'clock class and it's sometimes difficult to get ready and…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you remember writing those horrible gradeschool essays "What I did for my summer vacation"? I always hated those because we rarely did anything…
I watched my youngest graduate from high school and, while I was extremely proud of her, it was a bittersweet moment for me. Proud, because of her…
