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On Dogs and Dating Services
As I was checking out a few weeks ago with my $uper duper dog food at one of the several pet supply stores in town, I thought back a bit to when I was growing up. I think all pet food was in the local grocery store and the big choice was bags or cans, […]
Grading and Branding
December 2, 2018
A few weeks ago, we directed some attention to the phenomenon of grade inflation in America in the past half century. Today students are thought of as “customers” and “clients,” rather than acolytes in search of knowledge, at least in theory. I’d like to examine another novelty in higher education, “branding.” My wife was reared […]
Grade Inflation
December 2, 2018
Some University of Alabama entering freshman statistics are noticeably good, like at least 36 percent had a high school GPA of 4.0 or higher. That’s not a typo. In our traditional grading system, a 4.0 was the highest-grade point average you could attain. How could you have higher? I think it was that statistic that […]
Freshman Orientation
December 2, 2018
Freshman orientation is a rite of passage many of us went through, probably half smugly since we were 17 or 18 and pretty sure the world was our oyster. The other half of us was a little tentative at what lay ahead. I hadn’t thought about freshman orientation in a while until I saw where […]
Grading
September 24, 2018
We all get graded, all the time. You may have thought of “grading” as something just to do with school and colleges. But grading is also a phenomenon across the spectrum of all our life. Traditional grading goes, of course, from 0 to 100. Sometimes we reduce the scale from 0 to 10. “On a […]
Choosing Colleges and Universities
November 29, 2017
I have reached that generation where my friends have children and grandchildren of college age. In the public interest, since I’ve been in higher education more than half a century, I thought I would provide friends and readers with a guide to how colleges and universities rank in this country. We all know who ranks […]
St. Francis and the Crusaders
September 14, 2017
A few semesters ago I taught a course online at UA on the first half of the history of Christianity. The students in this course sampled how Christianity came into being and evolved over the first 1500 years. One of the questions they had to address was how the Church could have produced both a […]
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- 1 John 3:11“[More on Love and Hatred] For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”
December 2, 2018
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