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How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy
John Minichillo has patched together a university teaching career with part-time gigs at various colleges for the past fifteen years. He represents the thousands of short-term university faculty who work without job security for low salaries because they believe, perhaps naively, that what they do is important. He’s in the last year of a non-renewable teaching contract, and he has no idea what’s next.
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January 21, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: The Dr. Fritz Zwicky Endowed Chair of Astronomy Explains to a Class of Undergraduates Fulfilling Their General Education Science Requirement That the World Will Soon End
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December 18, 2015How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: Margaret Atwood’s Paid Address to a Padded University Audience in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of a Very Good Book She Wrote
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November 23, 2015How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: The Liberal Arts Building
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October 29, 2015How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: Welcome to First-Year Composition