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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

There is another faculty meeting today. As usual it was scheduled on the time when most of the faculty have no classes during one of the two days that the associate dean is in the campus.

Unfortunately for me, that means it happens during my only free time between a midmorning class and an afternoon class, which means that it's at the time when I'm usually having lunch.

Besides, as usual, making the faculty gather for something like this is, I still believe, a waste of most of the people's time.

There will most likely be persons who will push their own agenda tacking it on to the official item to be discussed even though it is only flimsily related, as long as it gets said.

There will be others who, on a topic that the dean could (and should) already rule on by himself, want something more convenient for him/her, and go into a long-winded argument and counter-argument with someone else with no resolution in sight or mind.

Old issues in previous meetings in the past years may also be brought up, such as cheating, academic advising, the faculty manual, benefits (particularly the tax shield), final exam schedules, teacher absences, or clarification on load.

There is a new rule now on the use of airconditioning units in the classrooms, when in fact the problem with that is not with the teachers, but in effective room assignment to maximize time when the air conditioner is on, and making sure there are enough personnel with enough clout to ask the students to leave a vacant room just because they want to hang out there, and have turned on the air conditioner in the process.

If there's also a threat that waste of electricity means higher tuition for the students (and if the students could be made to care about that, such as linking it to one of the privileges they enjoy, such as the elevator) then they just might pay heed.

Session 1843 wants to hear his own voice among teachers, not just among students. Class dismissed.