Meetings

I suppose it's good that I go to meetings . . . they're opportunities to share, tell stories, learn about other people's problems so that I don't feel alone with our IT shenanigans (no, that's not the right word: not negative enough - it's IT irresponsibility or arrogance or ineptness or all of the above).

The worst story I heard today was an instructor whose course -- a course teaching students how to use MS Outlook -- could not / would not have said software loaded on to the classroom machines (or the instructor computer).  The head of IT (AKA our CIO and Assistant Vice President for Technology) said that he didn't think it was "pedagogically sound" to teach Outlook skills in a hands-on lab setting.

Right.

Sure, I think it's unethical to charge our students college tuition to learn a software package, but our college has two programs that basically do just that (Office Technology and Computer Applications - these are programs left over from the "merger" when a community college and a technical school merged to form Century).

The things you learn . . .