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Knowing What I Know Now

October 12, 2018

I woke at 3am with the thought that the classes I’m currently teaching are going terribly. After 20 years of teaching, I’m familiar with this

Known, Needed, Cared For

September 12, 2018

When I was a high school teacher, we had a leader who told us that a successful institution is one where everybody in the community

New Educations

August 25, 2018

1. I survived high school by reading books about education. My mother worked at the local college and was using her tuition benefit to do

Change or Die

August 15, 2018

I’ve spent this week in meetings: New Faculty Orientation, New Academic Program Leader Orientation, various meetings of committees and groups. This is not a complaint;

Against the Grade

August 4, 2018

The backstory: Me and my grading I gave a presentation last month for the Summer Writing Institute of the National Writing Project in New Hampshire,

How Public? Why Public?

July 27, 2018

In the Interdisciplinary Studies program where I have begun working, we encourage students to go public with their work. It’s a common idea well beyond

Open Scholarship in Neoliberal Times

July 8, 2018

“Many researchers long for change,” an article at OpenUP Hub states, adding that such researchers “may desire to publish in new formats; to separate results

Assigning a Bad Book, Actively

June 22, 2018

At the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog, linguist Geoffrey Pullum declares, “We should not be sending students to a text as myopic and antiquated

Matthew Cheney

Occasional Writings

For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)

This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)

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