Towards Problems in SACS
compliance standards: rubric
accountability assessing aims
& goals & can't-get-no-
satisfactions:
Imagine assessing a course
where you are encouraged
to ignore whatever doesn’t
provoke, whatever doesn’t
call to you, catch your “I”?
The way you walk through
a field, say—or mall: paying
attention to some crow or
hedgehog, Gap display—
those new blue dungarees &
whatever suits your agenda
Ignore the rest. Mostly
ignore-ant, of course;
how could it be otherwise?
Attention deficient by
nature & natural selection.
Efficient where it counts.
Not where it don't.
Efficient overall.
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
At her low gate;
Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
Upon her mat.
I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone. (Emily Dickinson)
Girls in Cowboy Boots
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