In the good news department, Senator Leland Yee's bill which would require all public institutions of higher education in California to subject their auxiliaries to the same transparency laws that the mainline organizations are has been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.I realize that this is kind of an inside baseball thing, so let me ( Read more... )

Both last semester and this, I've had students who keep falling asleep in my classes.

This isn't new. Dozing off in class must have been a problem in school since the first time we sat young people down in a group to bore them to tears try to talk to them about something we wanted to teach them ( Read more... )

If you're a regular reader, you know I fly regularly and always have. I cannot even remember the first time I was on a plane because I was only months old ( Read more... )