Good news: classes are over!
Bad news: meetings out the wazoo all week long.
Good news: plenty of opportunities to play Buzzword Bingo!
Bad news: By the time I heard "measurable outcomes," "student engagement," or even "the measurable outcomes and student engagement piece," I'd rather be mowing.
Good news: can't mow when it's raining. May as well stay inside!
Bad news: today's meeting is in the room with lousy acoustics (so it'll be hard to hear buzzwords like "the retention piece"), giant windows (so there's no escaping awareness of the gloomy weather), and freezing temperatures year-round.
Good news: I remembered to wear warm socks and a jacket!
Bad news: who wants to sit in a gloomy room huddling together for warmth with a bunch of exhausted people straining to hear about "the critical-thinking-outcomes-measurement piece"?
All I can muster is a limp hurrah.
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We're stuffed with meetings too.
On the plus side, we're social scientists, so we know they're measuring things badly but we have to do the measurement crap anyway. Therefore we spend very little time on it other than, "here's the university's newest thing we have to do, and here's an example, don't spend too much time on this."
Ha! I could have written this exact post. Only silver lining is that some of my meetings this week involve free food.
Yes, we had pretty good free food today, although we also had to endure "the retention piece," "the syllabus piece," and, my favorite, "the hopeful piece." I'm not sure why anyone would say "There is a hopeful piece" when it's actually easier to say "There is hope," but I guess that's why I'm not an administrator anymore.
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