I team-teach a course in business administration in which students must
form and name companies. The names they chose are surprisingly
unproductive, failing to communicate much at all to potential customers
or investors. Perhaps that's a modeling problem: Students have few good
models of names and titles that communicate. So I wonder if a change in
faculty titles might help establish better models for them:
-- Professor of Grading on the Friendship Curve
-- Professor of Try, And It's At Least a B
-- Professor of Wasted Textbook Purchase
-- Professor of Transparent Contempt for Students
-- Professor of Oprahology: Learning is Hugging
-- Professor of Completely Unexplained Letter Grades
-- Professor of Thoughtless, Unproductive Syllabus
-- Professor of NO BASEBALL CAPS!!!
-- Professor and Amplifier of Student Whining and Gossip
-- Professor of Five Stories Told Over and Over and Over
-- Professor of 1970s Pedagogy
-- Assistant Professor of My Students Get Jobs; I Must Be Good
-- Associate Professor of I've Been Teaching This Way for 20 Years; I
Must Be Good
-- Professor of I Know I'm Good (See My Previous Titles); Don't Bother
Me About Assessing Student Learning
-- Professor of Reasons Why Negative Ratings and Comments from Students
Are Unjustified...Yet Again
-- Professor of Traumatized Without Text Ancillaries
My favorite and, unfortunately, one that sometimes hits close to home:
-- Professor of Everyone Else's Courses
-- Michael J Oakes Associate Professor of Economics and Finance Saint Joseph’s College | Rensselaer, IN Tel: 219-866-6353 | mjoakes@saintjoe.edu
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