Remind me to tell you about the year that I was chair of the Educational Policy Committee, and tasked with the problem of why 75% of our courses were scheduled on T, Th from 10-2.
My finest moment was sitting down with the English Department, which refused to make any changes at all, as they explained to me that pedagogically, it was *impossible* to teach any of their lower-level courses on M, W, F in the morning.
My response? "How interesting! Because Swarthnmore teaches Shakespeare in that slot. And Oberlin teaches the 20th century American novel in that slot. And Williams...."
Remind me to tell you about the year that I was chair of the Educational Policy Committee, and tasked with the problem of why 75% of our courses were scheduled on T, Th from 10-2.
My finest moment was sitting down with the English Department, which refused to make any changes at all, as they explained to me that pedagogically, it was *impossible* to teach any of their lower-level courses on M, W, F in the morning.
My response? "How interesting! Because Swarthnmore teaches Shakespeare in that slot. And Oberlin teaches the 20th century American novel in that slot. And Williams...."
And then I said: "What are they doing *wrong*?"
Crickets.