Cannot wait for a presidential candidate in 2048 to be dogged by questions based on their 2026 Canvas discussion board posts.
Senior thesis advising has to be the most rewarding part of undergraduate teaching. And now that I think of it, that is probably why the work functionally amounts to unpaid labor.
Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.
Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east
University admins, very solemnly: “To protect the mission, it is our sacred duty to ensure that this pile of money survives—nay, grows!—for the rest of human civilization.“
Also university admins: “We’re noticing that books are kinda out rn? So we’re 86’ing three of the four libraries.“
Last day of free download! 😱
Calling all Professors of Religion! Do you teach an intro to the study of religion course? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? Collecting for research purposes.
Question for my NT colleagues: does anyone have easy access to the Jewish Annotated New Testament and could tell me the print page numbers of David Frankfurter's Revelation introduction?
"vanity, vanity, all of life is vanity," he says to himself while trapped in a Syriac copy editing doom loop.