I divided the class into three groups -- one played the student leader, another played a faculty opponent and the final group played the academic dean on whose desk the problem landed.
I remember the irony, sitting in a college class titled "Social Problems" when angry young adults stormed through the academic building overturning desks, trashing the facility and threatening those who occupied it.
"I have two desks, and I have an academic thing going at one desk and the other thing going on at the other desk, and do them at the same time," she says.
With the popularization of social media and other outlets of discourse beyond the academic and the news desk, the discussion on women's bodies is undergoing a transformation.
We like to rhapsodize about the influential teacher who changes lives and hearts, and makes students stand on their desks in academic ecstasy.
I sent out a round robin to a dozen heads of departments in Oxford asking whether they would take me in as a science writer in residence, i.e., offer me desk space, an academic address, and computer access in exchange for some help with PR for their research.
It occupies a 12-story building (the top two floors were added in 1995) where five teachers in an academic department might share three desks in a converted broom closet as their office.
Librarians at academic libraries work at reference desks, catalog new materials, help students with complicated research projects, archive special materials, and keep libraries operating as cutting edge purveyors of knowledge.
The book on his desk is a new academic study of the 19th-century French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire – specifically, about his drug use.
In the interim, The International University Center Haiti will borrow desk space from our academic partner in Haiti, Ecole de la Rédemption.
