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Blogging lite because the load is Monday night heavy. Stampede Green
\nplayed yesterday; Blue played tonight at six. They won. That’s one
\nreason why Blue<\/i> Monday. Lots more games this week, though. Sheesh. ESPN has a lot of basketball?
\nGames on Wednesday, Friday and, if the Blue team wins, up to two more on
\nSaturday. Green on Sunday. It’s all clearer here<\/a>.
\nWorked through ten close reading essays since the game ended around 7:00
\np.m. Now Leno’s on; Dave too. That means it’s approaching bedtime late, so I
\nshould get started on some other things for tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Why else<\/i> Blue Monday? Punchclawkicking through the usual
\nbattles (no, not really…I’m decorous, polite for the most part…since I don’t
\nhave much club-wielding authority). Is it inevitable that as higher ed
\ninstitutions blend corporate, they’ll continue to test the limits of reasonable
\nworking conditions in FY composition and other high-enrolling gateway
\ncourses? I ask because I’m grumpy that once again (for the fourth time in
\ntwo years) I’m articulating reasons why adjunct instructors should not<\/i> be
\nallowed to teach more than two sections of writing-intensive FY composition in
\nan accelerated, eight-week format. It’s as much an issue of working
\nconditions as it is a question of the degree of care and attention I contend are
\ndue to all students. After all, some instructors welcome a cyberspace
\ncrowded with students because online adjuncting pay rates correlate to student
\nenrollments where I’m at. What’s more, essays come in on six of the eight
\nSundays. With two sections, that means 50 essays in one instructor’s email
\ninbox every Sunday for six weeks: the greatest load I can imagine anyone
\nhandling with due care. Now (learnt today), for the term ahead, one
\ninstructor is assigned to three sections, which, following the formula for
\nmaximum caps in online courses, equates to 75 students in an eight-week
\nterm. That’s why Blue Monday. That’s why Goodbye Blue Monday. <\/p>\n

Addendum, 11:07 p.m.: I’m back. I don’t have the gusto to pull apart everything I’ve asserted here. For example, I don’t think FY comp is merely a sequence of “gateway” courses. I do have serious gripes about working conditions as well as quality of teaching and learning when overloads become normal. If I had authority, I wouldn’t necessarily carry a club for inspiring action by brute force. That’s all the revision I can muster right now, but I was feeling mildly inhibited about using EWM for a burst of workplace grouchiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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