Preoccupation

Preoccupation.

I've been occupying Faculty L for over ten years.
Started around the time of the Columbine Shootings.
Before 9/11.  Motivated initially by rereading Marshall
McLuhan's  Understanding Media ("the media is the
message"), convinced suddenly we were in a position
to sustain converse action across the curriculum 24/7
and  might actually build up a Faculty ongoing Forum
something like St John's in-house publishing-to-each
other, something like FB and threads which emerged
much later--an emergent value and phenomenon.

Argo-Argument.  Edification going on.

There are good reasons why I've had no success, and
I haven't figured them out yet and maybe never will,
but I know they make systemic &  group dynamic
common sense plus maybe timing is a factor as always
as it was for Buckminster Fuller: all his geodesic solutions
which nevertheless didn't cog, and these things are always
beyond unilateral control and manipulation, improvised
explosive devises not with standing.

  General Education formally knowns as The Core

It's not what we know so much anymore that counts, but
whether we can put it in play. Imagine a slice of curriculum
designed and executed on that assumption.  I like to imagine
that: what it would look like. Environmental Play.   (Ludicrous)

Not that it matters no more than a fart in church, but I  wish
I could get on board with either oink or moo  and their
modifications.  I'm afraid, whatever the  content,
topic, subjec-matter, message, it'll still look like
this (what ultimately counts)

       syllabus (contract)
* lecture-to-discussion ratios
* attendance policy
* reading and writing assignments
  (texts, term & semester papers)
* quizzes and examination policy
* deadline policy (late penalties)
* presentation/poster policies
* assessment and evaluation policy
* diagnosed learning disability policy    
.
       syllabus (contract)
* lecture-to-discussion ratios
* attendance policy
* reading and writing assignments
  (texts, term & semester papers)
* quizzes and examination policy
* deadline policy (late penalties)
* presentation/poster policies
* assessment and evaluation policy
* diagnosed learning disability policy
.
       syllabus (contract)
* lecture-to-discussion ratios
* attendance policy
* reading and writing assignments
  (texts, term & semester papers)
* quizzes and examination policy
* deadline policy (late penalties)
* presentation/poster policies
* assessment and evaluation policy
* diagnosed learning disability policy
 
       syllabus (contract)
* lecture-to-discussion ratios
* attendance policy
* reading and writing assignments
  (texts, term & semester papers)
* quizzes and examination policy
* deadline policy (late penalties)
* presentation/poster policies
* assessment and evaluation policy
* diagnosed learning disability policy
 
       syllabus (contract)
* lecture-to-discussion ratios
* attendance policy
* reading and writing assignments
  (texts, term & semester papers)
* quizzes and examination policy
* deadline policy (late penalties)
* presentation/poster policies
* assessment and evaluation policy
* diagnosed learning disability policy
 
Takes a village: drums & smoke signals &
preoccupation.  "Don't give up, says Donald
Trump: Don't ever give up." And  as Grantland
Rice once said: It's not whether you win or lose,
it's how you play the game.

LUDICROUS.
Ridiculous to the savvy.
Offensive to the Conscientious.