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.

I will take a break from talking about my lectures and the details therein that I find noteworthy but am reluctant to share with the students in the edition meant for them (possibly because of misinterpretation, or a teacher tactic I do not want them to take advantage of) to get into a College and University Inspection Board visitor that we had last Friday. This is at the height (pun intended) of the floods that paralyzed parts of the metro.

The day before, this would be visitor called to say he was arriving, and got irritated by the fact that he was passed off from one person and one office to another, all while using up the credits on his celphone. First point of contention right there: if it’s work related, he shouldn’t be worried about paying for it out of his own pocket.

When he got here that day, he even indirectly accused the people here of telling back to their offices about his getting angry. Good thing Miss Shelly the director of the school of communication being reviewed took that tack that she did not know the details of the slight. It could also be blamed to him not going through the proper channels (which I’ll get more into in a bit).

Another fellow inspector of his, because of the road-blocking flood, informed us on the day itself about not pushing through. Yet, for reasons that may be made clear, this guy persevered.

He deplored the lack of masters’ degrees of the teachers hired by the School of Comm. He asked to see the “tool” for promotion, and turned out to be looking for the salary scale, not the evaluation and reclassification board forms.

He asked the college librarian point blank why she accepted “such a low” salary. He even wanted to see the memorandum of agreement between the school and the nearby communities being served by the NSTP programs. Some of these we doubt are even in the scope of his jurisdiction.

But it all seemed to be made clear when he was not treated like royalty, although he wasn’t addressed shabbily either, that the personnel weren’t bending over backwards to please him because they didn’t know what his beef was.

He said that is was his second time in our school. He applied here two years ago (he just lives and works two towns to the west) and did not even get a callback about not being accepted.

That, we believe, is why he looked at the faculty and promotion documents. “What do they have or need that I haven’t got?”

Was he still looking to be asked to teach here? Not bleeding likely.

Session 771 won’t be called back. Class dismissed.