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comp dept. administration: don’t try this at home

Monday 29 September 2008 | someone left a cookie

Dear composition instructors,

It seems that online courses is becoming increasingly popular [sic] as more people become qualified teach them [sic]. Although the number of online courses has also risen, the demand for online courses is becoming larger than the supply. After discussing this issue with various people [?], it became clear that the only way to be fair to everyone would be to distribute those opportunities to as many people as possible.

For this reason, please keep in mind that we cannot guarantee that anyone would be assigned more than one section of online courses [Sic] per semester. Please also remember that online sections may be canceled at any point, in which case you may be asked to teach a traditional or hybrid courses [SIC] instead.

When you submit your teaching request for future semesters, please make sure to include options other than online courses. If not, you may not receive the desired courses or schedule when online courses are not available.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

Okay, so…let me get this straight. An increasing number of students would prefer to take comp online. Therefore, instructors should be prepared…to teach fewer online sections.

INTERROBANG?!

Edit: Wait, I get it. The dept. chair means that these courses is becoming popular with INSTRUCTORS, not students—that the increased demand is coming from the faculty. Oh. Well, in that case….ignore this post. Nothing to see here, folks, just move along.

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  1. oleoptene said on Monday 29 Sep 2008 at 11.24 pm:

    They does go on, though, about supply and demand? What do you suppose economics department memos look like? I put my money on them having perfect subject verb agreement, beautiful subordinate clauses, no pronouns doing impossible things to people; however, those memos also probably suggest that as many instructors as care to ought to teach whatever online courses regardless of what students want, because all the economists will get paid somehow. That is, if anyone believes in economics anymore.


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