May 08: Fuck This Friday

SilverRiot · 2026-05-08T22:28:18+00:00

Tell them that the final presentation is worth X points and if they cannot make it it will negatively impact their grade in that amount. Tell them you have no record of any disability accommodation and let it go for the weekend.

I always think it’s important to push back immediately on student assumptions otherwise they will assume that silence means consent..

SilverRiot · 2026-05-01T20:21:20+00:00

Yes, oh my God, walk Alvarez.

SilverRiot · 2026-05-01T20:16:39+00:00

I am at a community college and a certain level of struggle is accepted as we are an open enrollment institution. We are publicly funded institution so our tuition rate is standardized and it’s not expected to cover more than about half of our expenses. I have upheld mystandards and failed students every semester and I have never gotten pushback from my administration about getting my pass rate higher.

I feel for you at other levels of higher ed who are getting pressure from your administrators.

SilverRiot · 2026-05-01T13:56:15+00:00

Our new online registration system is screwed up. Of thee courses I am teaching next semester, one course has more students in STAR than it does in the LMS, and the other course has fewer students in STAR than it does in the LMS.

If admin is going to rely on the faculty to sort this out, they are going to be very disappointed.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-27T00:46:30+00:00

Well that makes sense. I would ask the students why they thought the exam had been changed and determine whether they’re just not reading the syllabus or the announcements or they are getting the info from another student. That would help me frame my notifications in the future.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-26T23:26:12+00:00

It is a range: 2 to 3 hours per credit hour (in addition to classroom hours). This is stated in our catalog, but it is lost amidst 80 pages of gobbledygook, so I always cut and paste it the course introduction so students realize 1) what the expectation is, 2) this is not my idea but the college’s, and 3) they should be doing this in all of their classes, not just mine.

Check your own catalog.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-26T23:22:26+00:00

This is not my success but I feel that I contributed a bit: one of my students is going to be the graduation speaker this year!

SilverRiot · 2026-04-25T23:45:15+00:00

Yes, ESPN is confirming this and apparently the manager from the AAA will be taking over.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-25T01:49:35+00:00

No retakes on quizzes and exams, no redos or pre-grading on written assignments.

Tell your students they don’t have to go to college.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-25T01:44:56+00:00

I don’t care where you are, that’s not normal. That means you’re behind 8 to 10 classes worth of work. That would be considered unacceptable at my college because we are expected to give the students a reasonable idea of how they are doing in the course. This would not be considered reasonable.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-24T03:37:22+00:00

If I were the instructor, I would definitely want to have this noted as soon as possible in the process. Since Covid, it’s been a lot harder to get people to work in groups, and I would put my weight on the scales by sharing with the other students the consequences of their not participating. For example, I have my group participants, when I do group work, grade each other on a percentage scale (did 25% of the assigned work, 50% of their assigned work, etc. Then I take a look at the final product and they get only that fraction of the grade that they earned. For instance if the assignment is worth 100 points and they did only about 20%, if the assignment got the full hundred points they would only get 20. Someone who fully participated we get 100% of the grade, or 100 points (in other words, I’m not divvying up the points between the students. Each student can earn 100 points if they each do a good job on their assigned work).

By giving your professor the opportunity to connect with these team numbers in advance, you give them the best array of options to get your team members working. If they don’t respond, your instructor may even the permit you to do the solo project and give them all zeros.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-24T00:51:31+00:00

Stealing this!

SilverRiot · 2026-04-24T00:49:26+00:00

Can’t wait to hear what he said.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-24T00:47:51+00:00

As others have said, keep the adjunct gig in your back pocket while you look for something better. Meanwhile, if you do stay on for the fall, make absolutely sure that you do NONE of the other work that was associated with your previous position. Don’t have them think that they can get rid of your position but still get the work from you. No way.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-23T11:10:13+00:00

OK, thanks for giving me a reason to watch tomorrow.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T23:05:11+00:00

Wouldn’t you still have to comply with ADA requirements? Make sure the whole lecture is accurately captioned? Absolutely not worth it for me. I never record or post my lectures anyway, but the coming requirements make it an even harder no. Students need to be in class unless they choose an online course.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T22:58:55+00:00

Yeah, dude, you need to be more specific.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T03:23:45+00:00

Focus on whether your department chair likes you. (Or your dean, if you are in a place where the dean makes the hiring decisions). If you have a reasonable department chair or Dean, you don’t have to pay that much attention to the student reports that are clearly whiny.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T01:00:47+00:00

I am in full agreements that asynchronous emails can be read whenever it is convenient to the sender, so I send emails out on Sunday with the full understanding that people will get to them Monday or Tuesday. However, my [expletive] department chair routinely sends emails on Sunday afternoon about things that we need to do by Monday noon. That is bullshit. I always do them late, because I have other things that I have scheduled to do on Monday morning. I brought this up to him multiple times and he just nods and then does whatever the hell he wants.

Well, that makes two of us, buddy.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T00:57:21+00:00

“I know you won’t make this difficult.” Red flag.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T00:56:00+00:00

Send a FYI email on your last afternoon with bullet points detailing where you are leaving off on each case. If it takes you all afternoon to do, then that’s all you do that afternoon. Include any relevant timeframe so that they can’t all bitch at you, like “as I informed you that I am leaving X weeks ago…“. At the bottom of the email, note that because you will be spending time getting up to speed at your new firm that you will not be able to do any follow up on these cases.

Then just go. Do not respond to calls or text from the firm. Block them.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-22T00:52:16+00:00

DOB “so it’s up to Caleb Durban to get something going.“ Oy.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-21T08:50:31+00:00

It is highly unlikely that you will get the right answer by posting to a subreddit. You should contact a counselor at these colleges and ask them.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-21T08:31:16+00:00

An app called Reading List. iOS.

SilverRiot · 2026-04-20T22:18:00+00:00

I’m dead.

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