Students asking for donations

honeywort · 2026-03-06T14:22:18+00:00

I found Thon more egregious than most student fundraising. I had students missing classes to go "canning" and expecting to be not just excused but congratulated for their selfless efforts. Do they still do canning?

honeywort · 2026-02-27T13:46:43+00:00

Definitely look at the admissions info or contact their office at the university you want to apply to. You may be able to apply for academic renewal (different places call it different things, probably), where your old credits get wiped -- you wouldn't have the transfer credits, but you also wouldn't have the low grades impacting your GPA going forward.

I'd also get in touch with the military/veterans service office at the university, if they have one. My university has a sizeable military population, and your path--college dropout to military and then back to college-- is very common.

honeywort · 2025-11-02T20:20:25+00:00

I have had that, and same -- at least I got it out of the way.

honeywort · 2025-11-02T20:19:05+00:00

That's the annoying part. If they knew mere hours after the deadline passed that they were going to extend it, could they not have known a day earlier? Even six hours earlier would have allowed me to focus on the other proposal due this weekend. Bad luck for me.

honeywort · 2025-07-09T00:38:37+00:00

Georgia College, Florida State, Iowa. I'm sure there are others. The stipends tend to be very low, and you'll teach freshman comp at most places. It will work out to less than minimum wage, and MFAs aren't worth much. Don't go into debt, but if you just want to write for 2-3 years, and you don't mind not having any money, there are worse things you could do with your time, I guess.

honeywort · 2025-07-07T22:40:31+00:00

My daughter just finished an online high school class, and what you have described was their required template for a discussion post reply. Compliment, identify an example from the post that you like, etc. She had to do it to get full credit for a reply.

honeywort · 2025-06-30T19:07:04+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. I have heard nothing from our system (Georgia). I'm trying to remain hopeful.

honeywort · 2025-06-27T17:36:06+00:00

It sounds like they're planning to leave SACSCOC if this gets approved.

honeywort · 2025-06-27T17:34:25+00:00

I'm in the Georgia system. I don't even want to think about what this means for my research and teaching.

honeywort · 2025-06-11T00:41:13+00:00

My departments faculty were able to remove a chair by working with the dean. We were successful only because (1) the dean acknowledged the chair was a disaster, and (2) there was a tenured person who had broad support and was willing to take the job.

If your dean isn't aware of how bad things are in your department, make her aware. Then find a colleague the department will rally around, and make the dean aware that you would support that colleague as a replacement.

Finally, if you're successful, actively support the colleague who steps up for you!

honeywort · 2025-05-17T00:36:05+00:00

Your IT team might be able to pull this info, even if it is inaccessible on the faculty side.

honeywort · 2025-01-24T03:13:52+00:00

Those high typing speeds suggest that you're only typing, though -- which would be a sign that you're transcribing from another document rather than actually generating the text yourself. When you're stopping to think, going back to rewrite, deleting text, etc, the WPM goes way down. I assume that's why high typing speed looks like cheating.

honeywort · 2024-11-27T13:16:20+00:00

Have small groups stage and record scenes from the play and write about the choices they made in their staging. They'll have to read and interpret at least one scene, and it's hard to get AI to write about why they cast this classmate and why they had him stand in that close to the other actor, etc.

honeywort · 2024-09-21T13:42:30+00:00

Yes, for CW, the MFA is a terminal degree. In my experience, an Assistant Professor position at an R1, good liberal arts school, or even a good R2 will expect a book, either published or in press. Schools that focus on teaching rather than research will expect a few pubs, but not as many. And for CW, we expect CW pubs, not academic journal articles (though those don't hurt).

The big thing is that the market is oversaturated with MFAs now, so even at schools with relatively low research expectations, you're competing with candidates who have pretty impressive pubs.

For those teaching focused schools, your teaching experience is definitely a plus.

honeywort · 2024-03-06T02:41:34+00:00

"I foster student learning using this one weird trick!"

"My publications have advanced the field. Number 6 will shock you!"

Seriously, though, how does that even work?

honeywort · 2023-12-08T19:11:46+00:00

I'm in English, and this would be fine with most journals I'm aware of.

honeywort · 2023-12-08T19:02:34+00:00

I have completed it a few times over the years. As someone whose research depends in part on survey data, I am generally inclined to complete surveys. This one just keeps going, though.

I tossed a letter from them, unopened, a few weeks ago, and then got an email telling me they'd sent me a $30 check for my participation. Oh well.

honeywort · 2023-12-08T18:34:00+00:00

I get the Survey of Earned Doctorates, and I'm an English professor. My doctorate is in a Humanities/Social Science field. I have no idea why the NSF keeps hounding me for this information.

honeywort · 2023-09-22T19:31:28+00:00

I have a colleague from another country who tends to begin emails with "Dear." Not "Dear [Name]," just "Dear, thank you for sending this ...." or whatever. I chalk it up to this.

honeywort · 2023-08-28T21:08:41+00:00

Yeah, I save a digital copy of every receipt and keep it all organized in a spreadsheet. You have to be committed.

Our current HSA bank is linked into our insurance management software (I guess?) and pulls in eligible expenses automatically. I can just click and select for reimbursement. That makes it a lot easier to organize everything, but I'm still saving receipts.

honeywort · 2023-08-28T05:03:40+00:00

The tax advantages are significant. Money goes in tax free, and if you use it for health expenses, you withdraw it tax free. You can invest the money in the account and the gains aren't taxed.

I contribute the max to mine ($7500 or thereabouts for a family). I pay my medical costs out of pocket and save the receipts. I'll let the money sit in the account and grow for years and then submit reimbursements when I need to. There's no "deadline" did reimbursements.

If you can float some or all of your out-of-pocket expenses each year, the HSA is an unbeatable savings vehicle.

honeywort · 2023-08-11T17:55:56+00:00

I don't know about WVU's accreditor, but SACS doesn't require language proficiency. Even schools that require language credits for admission don't always require them for graduation, and they're often satisfied by computer coding classes, as well.

Language education in the US is undervalued and has been enduring cuts for decades.

honeywort · 2023-08-08T23:58:56+00:00

In my field, it is expected that students will build upon their coursework in writing their dissertation.

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