ahahahaha ha

[branchandroot]

So, the university responded to the Michigan stay-at-home order by declaring that SPRING AND SUMMER classes will be fully online!

Recall, Umich in general and LSA in particular has zero support for online classes, zero preparation, zero faculty experience. Academic Innovation has, heretofore, been this weird little office that specializes in MOOCs and sometimes gets suddenly asked for way more help than they have people or materials to do by one of the professional grad programs.

But suddenly! All online courses, for Spring and Summer terms!

*makes mad little jazz-hands gestures, indicative of a powerful urge to rip someone's head off*

So! I'll just be over here condensing the whole twenty pages of the QM rubric into a two-page handout of recommendations. As one does. Ahaha.

*screams into a pillow*

Comments

[ephemera]

*pets the edge of your pillow fort gently*

I would say *virtual tea*, but - coffee? shots? sweet oblivion? Whatever would help!

[branchandroot]

*emerges far enough to take the shot* Thank you!

[princessofgeeks]

Right there with you.

[branchandroot]

*hands over an extra pillow for screaming*

[ilyena_sylph]

Aw fuck, honey. I'm so sorry.

[branchandroot]

I just... in what world does this make sense? Can someone make our /beloved/ uni president actually take one of the current online classes, so he stops talking such rot? Ugh.

[libitina]

Endless screaming!!!!

[branchandroot]

All the screaming, for real.

[darkemeralds]

What a CF. The lack of leadership you're describing is really disheartening. I'm seeing it all over the place. All our institutions have been hollowed out by years of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses, and the hollowness is really starting to ring out in this time of catastrophe.

I hope your role in all of it goes better than you imagine. Good luck!

[branchandroot]

Disheartening is a good word for it, yes. At least LSA is attempting to do some faculty training which is not (yet) my team's sole responsibility, so that's good!

[midorigirl]

I'll start making you your own copy of The Wiffle Bat of Retribution, shall I? Standard 6 foot length, or are you looking for a bit more distance to beat them silly?

[branchandroot]

That would be /lovely/; 6 feet is good. I may well invest in a pole-arm for longer distance poking.