Not Another Meeting!

Yes, today was meetings, meetings, and more meetings. This photo is a group of faculty on stage discussing their assessment projects, which led to lots of discussion within the room. The beautiful blonde in front of me is the chairperson of our English Department. The brunette is the newest member of the English faculty, just hired and coming to us from Colorado.

This morning we had a welcome back from the president of our campus, an update from our vice-president on our readiness for the accreditation team that arrives in October, a round table discussion about assessment, a report from the president of our faculty senate, and a brief word from the faculty union representative. It was a full morning in the Little Theater and when I started clicking my cheapie camera, I think a few around me thought I was crazy. I knew it would eliminate a "blip" desperation moment later in the day (like right about now) if I would just click then, so I did.

With no break for lunch, (I guess we were to eat on the run), the next meetings were optional, but would count toward our faculty development hours (we need 18 of those each school year). So I attended the workshop titled "What's a Faculty Senate," and found that informative. Then I went next to a workshop that spot-lighted some great Internet and software tools for faculty. That ended with only one workshop left, about writing curriculum. I skipped that one and headed for home. Bob dog was standing here with his legs crossed ;-) waiting for a walk outside and that moment of "relief." So out into the triplet digit temperatures we went. Once Bob dog was sufficiently relieved, we were back into the cool air of this house.

I have been working on the side this week helping Mr. Fun with a project. I wanted to get home to finish that. That is now finished. Dinner has been consumed. The evening TV news has been viewed. The sun is going down. The heat is dissipating, and other than needing to get right back-up tomorrow morning and head into another day of meetings (this time at the Riverside campus), all is well in this household.

Southern California's two wild fires are still raging, and the Kennedy family is now in Boston preparing for Ted's memorial service. Thanks to everyone who commented yesterday, and you might want to know that I'm not going to assist my students is feeding their "2 minute attention span" (mentioned in yesterday's blip). I plan to help them learn to read better, write better, and to stretch their attention spans. I think that is a reachable goal.

Most of you will be on the threshold of the weekend before I blip again. Have a great last weekend in August.

Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol