One of the very first things our new Governor does in office is close down an early voting location on our solidly Democratic campus. The closure is explained by non-existent (see yesterday’s post) budget constraints.
During the online conference, a non-TT colleague who has nothing to lose interrupted the proceedings to wail, “Oh God, how could anybody have voted for Rauner? This is an absolute disaster! What were people thinking?”
As much fun as I had at the conference, I have to agree that our discussions of how to deliver an acceptable online course through the use of sophisticated technology, smaller classrooms, individualized attention, and a very high time investment on the part of professors were quite pathetic. Rauner and the Illinois Board of Higher Ed don’t want any of this. They want to cram 500 students into a single online classroom and charge them exorbitant prices for a course that fewer than 4% of them are likely to pass under the most lax conditions imaginable.
Yes, we only have to put up with this corrupt big-government loser for 4 years but destroying is easier than building. He can inflict a lot of damage in that time.
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