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 was talking yesterday about the travails of the school of engineering, where teaching load assignments are still being moved around less than a week from the start of classes (and after the supposedly official schedule had been printed and shown to the late enrollees) because of lack of available faculty.

The general science requirement mechanics lecture and lab subjects have been taken out of my hands.

I will still try to coordinate their theme park field trip though, if the new teacher will allow me.

The introduction to electricity and magnetism lecture and lab classes have also been given to someone else.

That means that I will only be handling the incoming sophomores in one subject, and that's introduction to robotics, so that's only those taking engineering (for whom it is required) and some from computer science and maybe business and communications arts for whom it is considered as a free elective.

One of the applicants in whose teaching demo I paneled for will not be hired anymore, even though he came from one of the other campuses in the same district/system.

Even my co-teacher who had seen him in that other campus before knows there's a cloud over his leaving.

Besides, in his curriculum vitae he lists several schools for which he had been with at an average of five years at a time, after which he leaves, severing ties completely.

The director of the school of engineering found this suspicious, stating he would have understood alternating between the academe and the industry, but this “Odyssey” means something else as there is no growth in moving from school to school.

So a personality problem was suspected that had to have been the cause, forcing him to drop everything at the end of each conflict and start anew somewhere else, until the clash due to stubbornness rears its ugly head again.

Our acting dean was finally able to get the story from one of the vice presidents for academics and research in that other campus (who was just a dean or chair when it happened) getting more than a silent shake of a head this time, and it seems the back story involves something inherent in his behavior that cannot be prevented, so there is no question of taking him on anymore even part-time.

Session 1629 probably hasn't heard of background checks from honesty in listed working experience. Class dismissed.