It's not Easy Being Academic

BEING ACADEMIC

Backing out of the faculty parking lot, on the

radio I heard a commentator admit that such

& such was 'merely academic'—and see: that

right there speaks to an attitude that might

could explain whatever inadequacy of higher

ed if not lower we often bemoan, and maybe

indicates what drives the re impoverished

insistent capability of Professional Education

Accrediting Systems to over-emphasize rubric
assessment of goals & aims & purpose  and
 demonstrable measurable outcomes assuming

that might improve the process. GetRDone:
Lord  save us from the "Merely Academic."

Starving Liberal Artist Syndrome, call it. .

Or What Good is a Philosophy Major For

           Crying Out Loud Disease
              (WGPMFCOLD)

Something like that. Anyone can improve

my terms. I beg for differers.