If you take the time to Google around long enough, you learn that teaching college students can be an exercise in avoiding tripwires.
Religion, Gender, and most recently long-established historical facts are being contested and are turning into hot-button issues that become costly actions to suppress but should have superseded academic freedom, soon after the classroom sessions have ended and experienced professors are ousted.
And you know who is not speaking up to defend educators? The academic administrators who are afraid of losing their high salaries, board support, and prestige
According to published reports, https://www.chronicle.com/news
Hero to Out at age 40. - For a baseball player, that would be an awful dump, for the gambler, a costly run of losing luck.
But for the presidents of colleges and universities, it is at best an embarrassment and at worst a dereliction of duty.
Since governors and Legislatures began systemically to remake public higher education in their states into a branch of the most conservative #MAGA GOP faction, these leaders have refrained from uttering a public word in support or defense of their students, faculty, and staff. Worse, the presidents of the community colleges see no evil, say, or hear.
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Building academic relationships is the top teaching priority.
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Just because we’re not in the classroom doesn’t mean we’re not working.
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We are emotionally invested in each and every student and the weight can be heavy and education is nonstop.
The process is rewarding and can be smooth as ABC or 123 as long as the Maestro is free to teach facts.