Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The college faculty meeting yesterday was only partly a meeting, and partly a continuation of our workshop last August.

The dean dominated the meeting with his agenda, especially a new form for make up classes and permanent change of schedule, supposedly simplified from the previous cluttered form.

There's even a checklist at the bottom for how the faculty informed the dean's office about the absence that is to be made up: was the college secretary called, was it anticipatory etc.

Another new kink in the meeting was that there were new jobs for which volunteers among the faculty present were asked.

I don't know if there were many who raised their hands for the tasks (I had my head down in a book for my class immediately after the meeting) or if the secretary was taking down names.

As expected, someone took the offer of a research coordination with a business rating outfit to insert her own concern, which was about promotion requirements: specifically, will helping in that project count towards getting a rank increase.

The dean just reiterated what is being asked of teachers who want a higher salary: scholarly output that shows they deserve the new title.

The second part of the meeting was when the dean presented his "revisions" to the output of our previous workshop, and asked the initial groups to review them again. But then he himself headlined that since there wasn't enough time remaining (he even set a limit as to how long he had to talk in the first part before passing the floor over to the director of the school of information and communication) their group just coordinated when they could meet in the future.

We did them one step better by just asking our members to add their thoughts to the previous files that were sent online.

Session 1845 lives for sneaking their ideas to the administrators during meetings. Class dismissed.