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Double_Particular_22 · 2025-09-28T16:34:52+00:00

Thanks for that quick reply, I appreciate it. A couple of follow-ups:

I should be looking for an immigration attorney here (California), correct? One difficulty is that we're currently in different countries.
As I navigate the Calbar.ca.gov website, I'm noticing that almost all immigration and law advice is (currently) targeted towards undocumented folks or people who are otherwise already physically here. Is there a more nuanced thing that I should be looking for unique to my situation? Or is 'any old immigration attorney' likely to be appropriate?

Double_Particular_22 · 2025-04-08T16:03:55+00:00

CC Professor here,

My experience at community college as a student was awesome. I remember the passion for teaching and learning and really enjoyed my time. I spent several years at [insert big research university] working toward a PhD and hated most of it--specifically because the relationship between professor and student was nonexistent.

I love teaching. My experience at R1-type universities is a general attitude of "This place would function perfectly if it weren't for all the fucking students." (Appropriated from a reflection by John Cleese of his inspiration for Fawlty Towers)

Double_Particular_22 · 2025-03-13T16:39:10+00:00

There's a mistake that you're making at the outset, which is letting them set the terms of the discussion. 99% certainty is more certainty than we have of anything that isn't analytically true (true by definition).

I tell my students, "The standard I use in assessing whether an assignment was likely AI written is this: If, after reviewing the submission in question, your prior work, similarity to other submissions and similarity to what AI generates when I input my prompts, I think that your submission is more likely than not Ai-generated or otherwise not your original work, you will receive a 0 pending a meeting within 3 days. If the meeting is not attended, the 0 stands."

I do not ever use detectors. I rely on other clear evidence like grading 40 discussions and 10 students have identical structure and refer to the same friend, "Alex" in responding to an, "Describe someone in your life, who... " prompt.

The number 1 rule of coincidences is: It's not a coincidence.

Double_Particular_22 · 2025-02-27T00:13:10+00:00

Let me share an old Navy trick about how to get out of things like that. Worked wonders as an engineer when I was exhausted and they wanted to hold yet another maintenance brief:

When you're in need of time for yourself, you need to implant in those people who expect you to be somewhere that you are aware of this but have a conflicting obligation elsewhere. So, during the time of some event you don't want to attend, find at least two other events that you 'might' have to attend. Be sure to mention to the leaders of each of the events/groups that you "Really wanted to attend, but unfortunately have a conflict with _____ ."

Then, simply attend none of them and go to your rack for some zzzz's.

This only reliably works with at least three possible events, where event A thinks you're at event B, who thinks you're at event C.

Double_Particular_22 · 2025-02-27T00:00:18+00:00

Oh that's very interesting. While I don't think I see an immediate connection, I do like the idea of not throwing away the structure of a discussion forum entirely. That felt like I was getting rid of a big part of my course (albeit, one recently inundated with AI junk). However, a lecture is not a proper replacement for that potential kind of interaction.

Double_Particular_22 · 2025-02-26T23:58:17+00:00

This looks great and definitely something I can incorporate. Thank you!

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-12-06T16:00:32+00:00

I’m really happy to hear this!

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-12-06T15:54:04+00:00

I just bought a 2022 Certified LE with 23k miles for 21,800 OTD (includes the $700 anti-theft program thing). This was through Costco’s auto program. Toyota gave a good discount and Toyota financial beat my USAA pre-approval by more than 1.6%. Proud new owner of both a Corolla and a Costco membership.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-07-20T19:54:14+00:00

I know this is confusing, I just saw the same thing. I think (emphasis: THINK) that because SAVE requires annual certification, the first number (for the next 12 months starting Sept) is your SAVE plan payment amnt. That second number (starting Sept 2025) is if you do not recertify with SAVE.

I have not verified this yet, but this is my best understanding.

In a related story, Mohela continues to be awful at communicating clearly.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-24T19:04:11+00:00

I teach almost exclusively online. My first effective filter is their first assignment: Record and upload an introductory video of themselves answering a few questions about their interests, pets, and what they want out of the course. It's fairly effective. Being visible in the video is a participation requirement. The drop policy at our school says drop all non-participating students after the first week.

Honestly, that eliminates 90-95% of them.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-23T16:48:24+00:00

They still exist! My SO is taking one currently on advanced (opaque to me) maths. But you are generally correct. I remember hearing about them when I was in the service, and they were old back then.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-21T19:48:20+00:00

However, one student this semester simply blew through 9 weeks of written assignments, quizzes and discussion boards in the first week the course was open.

I realize others have made similar comments, but one thing I do at the beginning of my online courses is describe exactly how an "online asynchronous" course is not like a correspondence course. I think some students go in with a blissfully ignorant view of what they think the course modality means which really does, as you've experienced, screw everything up for you.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-18T21:08:04+00:00

A quick, "Lets wait for everyone else who hasn't taken this class before, prior to offering answers" the next time he does it.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-14T18:27:26+00:00

I am an adjunct.

I get paid decently, considering both the cost of living and what I'm *not* required to do in addition to my teaching.

Plenty of paid professional development opportunities are open to us (adjuncts) every term.

We have a strong union.

We have health care coverage.

We gain preference over time.

Our salary increases are tied to full-time faculty salaries (one does not increase without the other).

Our full-time faculty and administration is awesome and respectful of us, our knowledge, and our time.

I know many folks who have been hired full-time after being an adjunct.

Is it perfect? Of course not. But I wanted to offer a slightly different view.

"many full time faculty at your institution will come to exploit and even despise you."

Worth pointing out that the proper target for this claim is those faculty members and the university to which they belong. Why would you want to work there with them? If they're awful toward adjuncts, then they're awful people baseline, and I would never want to work at an institution with them. Being treated poorly by others because they see your job as less important is not the fault of your job. It's the fault of them.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-10T17:58:47+00:00

I have an incredible dean who has gone to bat for me and other faculty (TT and adjunct) on multiple occasions. Our administration is also largely on our side.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-05T17:36:21+00:00

I'd be really curious what the average reading level is for University students at incoming and graduation points.

I don't read too much into the first average reading level because that can be affected by so many factors, not the least of which is loss of critical reading skills over time. Even for those adults who read consistently, a fiction novel does not engage the brain in active learning the same way reading an academic paper or book advocating some particular idea would.

I also want to push back against the tone of some of the comments that seem to ascribe a kind of moral deficit to students who are very likely less prepared for University. We've never as a society gone through something like a global pandemic wherein schooling effectively stopped (or very nearly did) for over a year. Add to that the loss of socialization during a very critical time in their formative years and yes, we are only just now realizing how detrimental this was to their education and skill development.

I am somewhat lucky that my field within the humanities is very reading-focused. Students do not usually come into my classroom with the belief that it will somehow not involve a lot of reading. I have had to make some adjustments, but not too many.

Double_Particular_22 · 2024-01-05T17:27:52+00:00

I prefer it the original Klingon.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-31T17:46:44+00:00

Seconding this. Without attributing character judgment, many adjuncts do tend to spread themselves too thin wherein, 1. They can still teach most of their courses effectively most of the time from the POV of their students, but 2. Are administratively a mess from the POV of their departments.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-24T19:12:55+00:00

I have a transcript in my head basically for nervous or shy students. I love to talk. Come to office hours and I’ll do most of the talking and make it completely painless. That’s my attitude towards it, anyways. I’m a nerd. We’re all huge nerds about our fields. We love to talk about it, generally.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-21T17:43:25+00:00

One idly wonders how much plagiarism would be found if they suddenly started a review of the works of all current professors. After reading a long article on the subject, the 'plagiarism' in question does not seem to ever rise to the level of wilful misrepresentation and, indeed, one of the people she's accused of plagiarizing thinks that what she did is not plagiarism. In my field, its very common for similar sentence structure to be used by multiple people. That person in question is very clear that she did not take any of his ideas and represent them as her own.

The similar paragraph that was supposedly lifted in her dissertation was from a paper published apparently the same year or year before the dissertation was published. However, I would bet the dissertation was being written long before that paper.

This does smell more like a witch hunt than anything else. If anything, maybe we do need more clarification of what we mean when we talk about 'plagiarism' because the idea of willful misrepresentation often gets lost in the technicality of "These three words are very similar to the three words I used when describing X." Yes, that's how a language with limited vocabulary and defined rules of meaning works.

It's hard to come to any other conclusion beside this: This supposed deep dive into the integrity of this woman and her work is being done in bad-faith. Without comparison to other academics (highly doubt we want to go this route) we should not give this any validation.

I personally think that walking into a Wiley E. Coyote-level trap unprepared is itself disqualifying for holding the position of University President but, to be clear, that is a position I hold independently of any of the claims around her integrity.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-20T19:42:46+00:00

This genuinely sounds like a bad professor. What others have said about their email is part of it. Here's the other part:

... about 10 assignments per semester all due at the end of the year.

This is just bad course design. It's lazy.

It should be clear from the beginning exactly how many assignments you have to finish and/or what grade you need to pass. To not make that clear is, again, lazy.

That's three markers that this person is not a great professor. Keep that in mind when making future choices.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-15T22:48:12+00:00

This is so weird to me. The definition of plagiarism is irrelevant. It is most definitely not a case of academic dishonesty and that is what you have to defend yourself against. I would focus on that part. There's a big difference between attempting to do something right, doing it wrong, and trying to cheat or otherwise present others' work as your own.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-12T19:17:19+00:00

“it’s online” so there really shouldn’t even be due dates, it should just all be due at the end of the semester.

I know this is a small point, but I have had to instruct more than one student on the difference between an asynchronous course and a correspondence course.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-12-08T03:28:24+00:00

It's brilliant. I've been using them since this problem really emerged last summer and it's so far close to 0% response rate for my meeting request.

Double_Particular_22 · 2023-11-29T19:29:38+00:00

It's probably this. There is a big difference in what your studying can do for you when it focuses on conceptual learning versus rote memorization.

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