Toward Frontiers Yet Unknown

CONTACT TIME

How much contact
time is needed for the
institutionalized?

For the home
scholars? The
non-residential
Me.F.A-ers?

We went from five 50
min.3 c.h. courses per
sem. to four 80 min 4
c.h. courses per sem.
busting the 15 wk
semester into two 8 wk
terms so that students
were generally taking
only 2 or 3 different
courses at once and
faculty: 1 or 2
different
courses at
once.

Do More With Less
was our motto;
Schumacher was
our saint. Small
IS beautiful (we
all saluted) &
economics as if
people mattered
mattered.

Over 15 years, with
legal immigration
of new grad-student
phds & scholars from
other institutions coming
here who didn’t reinvent
our wheels: the semester-
length course eventually
supplanted the term-length
and here we are, with
alternate Fridays so some
SACS notion of industrial
contact hours might
be appeased..

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Stalwart Pioneers

Fellow boundary
crossers transgressing
the curriculum
oops
oh
damn
toward
frontiers
yet unknown.

State lines I can see
don’t count. I park
the car and straddle:
half Connecticut
half Massachusetts

The other lines are
visceral. I don’t
feel anything.

Oh,
Now I do.

xxxooo Presbyter