I will not begin this post with the word “netiquette” (you can get the book for more details), because the term dates to the 1980s and this is something I hope someone, especially my students, will read. I’m writing this because someone has to tell this generation of students about the meaning of the poor [...]

At the university where I teach we have two kinds of professors: those who are tenured and those who have some time to kill before they become tenured. The professors who are not tenured are still playing nicely with others, and try not to ruffle the feathers of their precious students. After all, student evaluations [...]