I’ll be joining Macaulay Honors College Class of 2015 tomorrow morning for the first of three days of orientation. It will undoubtedly be a crowded, noisy, boisterous morning, and my welcome message is brief — actually, all I really want to say is, “have fun,” but then that doesn’t sound particularly decanal. So it will […]
Teamwork, Tools, Talent: Welcome Macaulay Class of 2015! #Macaulay #highereducation
August 21, 2011 by
Are America’s Colleges subverting the Liberal Arts? Do I like LAT’s shoutout to Macaulay? http://lat.ms/annkirschner #higher education
August 17, 2011 by
Pardon the snarky caption: that’s me talking, not Professor Will Snyder; I’m sure he knows what the Blackboard means. I could write a book about this article and maybe I should. For now, here’s the LAT article and you can read it yourself. I will simply say that the liberal arts ARE alive and well […]
Who knew I could love Nixon? Don’t miss some of my favorite Macaulay students on Thirteen.
July 5, 2011 by
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Joining Professor Richard Blot’s seminar on “Friendship”
April 24, 2011 by
I’ll be teaching/talking/thinking aloud about FRIENDSHIP in Professor Richard Blot’s seminar on May 3 at Lehman College. Odd how it coincides with the end of Passover and the other Yom Hashoa talks I’m giving…for my mother’s survival had so much to do with friendship. Of the women who were with Sala for years in the […]
Vote for Macaulay
April 14, 2011 by
1. Literally: check out the Eportfolio showcase and vote for your favorite Macaulay digital presence. Hmmm, why is my link button grayed out? (And when did GRAY become a verb?). OK, try here: http://bit.ly/gCPwox 2. Macaulay students, identify yourself! I was recently told by LinkedIn’s CEO that I was one of his first 100,000 users. […]
Who knows how to run the NYC school system?
November 12, 2010 by
Too many American schools are failing to serve their students. And that’s with the professionals in charge. So maybe it will be a new breed of education chiefs who will inject energy and accountability and innovation back into the classroom. It hardly matters whether those people come from schools of education or business or journalism! […]
Welcome Macaulay Class of 2014!
August 24, 2010 by
Rainy day in Central Park, but freshmen orientation got off to a great start. Loved the poetry slam, creative, rhythmic stories delivered with passion and intelligence. Met students from every campus and many high schools — Hunter High Science, Townsend Harris, Herricks, Midwood, Molloy, Yeshiva Flatbush, La Guardia — what, no Stuy? must have been […]
Old dumb media on my iPad
August 19, 2010 by
Why does Vanity Fair cost $3.99 if you buy it on your iPad but $4.99 if you buy it on iTunes? If you go to the VF site, you are invited to buy a print subscription ($1/issue if you buy annually), Wait, why does it cost anything at all since I have a print subscription? […]
SNAPSHOT 2009
December 6, 2009 by
Class of 2012 is in the house today.? What’s it like to see your photograph catagorized and hung by someone else?? Maybe your photograph screamed ETHNIC to you but it was put with PORTRAITS, or you saw NATURE and the curators saw HOME?? Makes me think of that Freud quote I always liked:? “A work […]