English professor Lila Maclean knew drama would be involved when she agreed to consult on Stonedale University’s production of Puzzled: The Musical. But she didn’t expect to find herself cast into such chaos: the incomprehensible play is a disaster, the crumbling theater appears to be haunted, and, before long, murder takes center stage. The show … Continue reading New academic mystery |(with giveaway and character interview!): The Spirit in Question by Cynthia Kuhn
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Guest Post: The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower by C. T. Collier (and a new Professor Lyssa Pennington mystery!)
After a rough semester, Professor Lyssa Pennington just wants to post her grades and join her husband, Kyle, in Cornwall for Christmas. First, though, she’s expected to host an elegant dinner for Emile Duval, the soon-to-be Chair of Languages at Tompkins College. Too bad no one told Lyssa murder is on the menu. And, by … Continue reading Guest Post: The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower by C. T. Collier (and a new Professor Lyssa Pennington mystery!)
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A 92-Year-Old Woman Just Earned Her Fourth College Degree
“Only the strong survive,” she was quoted as saying. from Mental Floss http://bit.ly/2KqxR0v Sign up for Frankie’s newsletter and get a free Professor Molly story Blog | Facebook | GoodReads | LinkedIn | Twitter | Mailing List Advertisements
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A New Nosy Parkers Mystery: The Case of the Clobbered Cad by Debra E. Marvin
>>> Enter to win a prize package including books and a custom table runner <<< Inspired by the famous Girl Detective, the members of the Olentangy Heights Girls’ Detective Society, affectionately known as the Nosy Parkers, spent their formative years studying criminology, codes, and capers. Unfortunately, opportunities to put their unique skills to work were […]
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New College Town Cozy Series: Gone with the Wings, a Meera Patel Mystery
>>> Enter to win an e-copy of Gone with the Wings <<< Author Leena Clover announces a brand new cozy mystery series set in a small Oklahoma college town. Mystery readers will enjoy this culinary cozy murder mystery featuring plenty of yummy recipes like Masala Fried Chicken and Shish Kabob Blue Plate Special. Meera Patel […]
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‘Ulysses’ VR Game Developed in Boston, Showcased in Ireland
A virtual reality game developed by college students in Boston and based on James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is being showcased in Dublin as the Irish capital holds its annual celebration of the author and novel. Read more at the NYT: http://nyti.ms/2ss3Yrq Sign up for Frankie’s newsletter and get a free Professor Molly story Blog | Facebook […]
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The Coloring Book I Wish I’d Published
Julie Schumacher found plenty of fodder for her career detour into adult coloring books from two decades teaching at the University of Minnesota, which has its own therapy animals for stressed-out students to pet. With simple line drawings by illustrator Lauren Nassef, “Doodling for Academics” (The University of Chicago Press) pokes fun at the college […]
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“One of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion”
By RICHARD SANDOMIRDick Contino, whose energetic accordion playing and movie-star looks made him a teenage star in the late 1940s, but whose celebrity ebbed after he was imprisoned for evading induction into the draft, died on April 19 in Fresno, Calif. He was 87.His wife, Judy, confirmed his death. For a time, Mr. Contino was […]
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New academic mystery, #Giveaway, and character interview: The Art of Vanishing
>>>Enter to win a copy of The Art of Vanishing<<< When Professor Lila Maclean is sent to interview celebrated author and notorious cad Damon Von Tussel, he disappears before her very eyes. The English department is thrown into chaos by the news, as Damon is supposed to headline Stonedale University’s upcoming Arts Week. The chancellor […]
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The Blessed Event is on Kindle Monthly Deals. Only 99 cents in March!
“You may wonder what my least-favorite student was doing in my living room. In a twist of fate that might seem hilarious if it happened to someone else, he was now my stepson.” Professor Molly Barda is looking forward to a quiet summer in Mahina, Hawaii working on her research and adjusting to married life. […]
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New Sketch in Crime mystery: The Drawing Game
>>Enter to win a print set of the Sketch in Crime Mysteries (U.S. Only)<<< A lover of all things green, CeCe Prentice is not impressed when a fully-sustainable development, Green Acres, pops up next to her family’s homestead. It’s not so much the ridiculous price tag of the million dollar homes built entirely from re-usable […]
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College students are not customers. Or are they?
Read the original on Slate: College students are not customers: A political shorthand that needs to die.If students are customers, then the university is a business. A business’s only goal is to succeed, as in make the largest profit possible, which it usually does by purveying the cheapest product it can at the highest price customers will pay. In this model, tuition should be as high as the school can get away with, and all courses should cater purely to the tastes of the lowest common denominator of the customer base. In practice, it follows that each class should be five minutes long, taught by holograms of Rihanna, and consist entirely of self-graded multiple-choice tests composed in emoji.
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Today on College Misery: They’re final grades, not opening bids.
I posted final grades at 2pm.
Within minutes my inbox was brimming with pleas from prodigal students, some of whom had attendance records so irregular that I had to double check to make sure they were actually students of mine.
Some of the afternoon's highlights:
"Dear Professor Bow,SURE WHY NOT I'D LOVE TO SPEND MY UNPAID SUMMER DEVOTING MORE TIME TO YOUR GRADE THAN YOU DID THE ENTIRE SEMESTER AND THEN FIELDING GRIEVANCES FROM ALL OF THE OTHER STUDENTS WHO MANAGED TO TURN IN THEIR WORK ON TIME
I just received my final grade ...and I was just wondering if there is any way possible that I could try to bring up my grade to pass the class."
"Normally I would graciously accept my grade with the understanding that I did not put in as much effort as others, yet had I known that the written assignments would have been counted as part of my grade, then perhaps my approach to your course would have been different."How rash of me to assume that students would know that they were supposed to complete the writing assignments, when the only hints provided were that these assignments were 1) discussed at length and in detail in class, and 2) posted on the course website with 3) points and a grading rubric attached to them. Also the class is designated "writing intensive."
"I was wondering if there was a time tomorrow I could schedule a meeting to come in and speak with you. I am graduating and the failing grade that you gave me [earned by not turning in most of the assignments] is unacceptable as it will not allow me to graduate."Employers: YOU'RE WELCOME.
"Aloha Professor Bow,SURE WHY NOT I'D LOVE TO SPEND MY UNPAID SUMMER...oh heck, this should just be my summer autoresponder email.
I am graduating this semester and I noticed that the grade you have just put up for me [note: not the grade I earned; the grade you put up for me] is really close to a C. Is there anything that I can do to bump it up at this point?"
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There are, according to one estimate, 1600 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Unlike other nations, many of America’s colleges and universities are privately run in addition to the government-supported schools. Since public schools often have tuitions far lower than their private counterparts, thus consequently impacting financial aid, the question of how to […]
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