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My Last Semester as a Professor

My blog series about my final days as a college professor

Jan 24, 2007 Naomi Rockler-Gladen

Join me as I chronicle my last semester as a college professor! Here's the ongoing series of my blog posts about my adventures.

This is my last semester as a college professor. Woo-hoo! Actually, I'm a little bit sad about this at times, but delighted about moving on.

Want to read about my last semester as a college professor? Here is the ongoing series I've been writing in my blog about my final days in academia. Throughout the semester I'll be reflecting on the state of college education in America, including issues regarding women in academia and skyrocking tuition rates. If you are someone who is thinking about becoming a professor or leaving academia, I hope my insights about the advantages and disadvantages of being a professor will be helpful to you.

And hey, please join the discussion! I'd love to hear who's reading this and what you have to say.

MY FINAL SEMESTER AS A PROFESSOR

Prologue: My last academic conference

  1. My last semester as a professor
  2. My last first day of classes
  3. My last semester classroom (the "udder side of the beef industry")
  4. Independence Day is over
  5. Aaron McGruder and academics
  6. Baby name trends and students
  7. Ode to a dead television set
  8. College teacher movie nonsense
  9. Women, academia, and tenure
  10. An awesome teaching day
  11. My last midterm exam
  12. Goodbye school year schedule!

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Aug 25, 2009 2:46 AM
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I would like to comment on an article posted on Yahoo on Sunday, August 16, titled: The 50 richest colleges:

This report is good and people really need to know this information because these institutions are educational institutions and are in business to educate young people and to serve as good examples for the younger generations. With that in mind our country is going through tough times right now, the very same system that enabled these individuals and institutions to achieve their high positions in society. They always talk of how great America is and how much they love America, when it suits them. Many years ago the president of the United States informed all Americans that we all needed to make sacrifices for the benefit of the country. Please tell me what sacrifices these very wealthy individuals and institutions made for the benefit of the country? Did they simply continue with their business as usual—with their own profiteering ways? While only the American soldiers were left to put their lives on the line and make the necessary sacrifices, alone?

There is a problem in America and it concerns this very same issue. Is capitalism moral? Should it remain the same, where some continue to gain too much while others go without? America is the richest country on earth, is it really the right thing to do? Can we continue on this course? Should we continue to rely on our military to bully the rest of the world and when, and if, they don’t agree with our profit only state of mind, just kill them and then expect then not to try and kill us too?

Many in our society maintain an old out dated primitive way of thinking, which is confrontational, dangerous, disrespectful, greedy and selfish, to many in the rest of the world. America remains a divided country from within; many don’t even want our own people to have health insurance, because of their own selfishness and greed. Where is the unity in the United States, when everyone is divided by policies and profits, republicans and democrats, wealthy and poor, haves and have not’s, just to name a few.

An AuthorHouse published book titled: THE ROAD TO AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, available at Amazon, Barnes&Nobles, and many other retailers, address many of these issues. All Americans need to read it. These major institutions like these 50 richest college professors need to read it and remember that changes are needed now for the benefit of the future generations. No more ignoring the facts on the ground and the practicing of business as usual. Our younger generations must learn to do a better job of taking care of their fellow Americans. Do away with the profit only philosophy. Or we may not have another recovery after the next created crisis for a few people at the top to gain greater fortunes at the expense of the less fortunate people in American society. Read the writing on the wall before it’s too late.
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