Faculty write to President Barchi to express their concerns.

Was it really just two years ago that everyone hooked into the Rutgers Emergency Alert System (upwards of 40,000 students, faculty, and staff) received this terrifying text message, three times in succession, in the early morning hours of April 16th, 2011: As I’ve written about elsewhere, this text was anything but an “early warning.” Around midnight, the first of three shootings occurred on or near the university’s...

I’ve been working on text2cloud for coming up on a year now and I’m finally in a position to write up some brief accounts of the lessons I’ve been learning as a result of taking on this project of learning in public.  Unlike the majority of the posts that populate the site, these “lessons” will be brief, direct, and informational. Because I spend the majority of my professional life working with teachers, I know...