He retired in 1985 but continued to work as a consultant to the museum and as a traveling lecturer about aviation and space exploration.
Have they created a sufficiently safe yet challenging space for the lecturers with whom they work?
Students are encouraged to use the space to rate their lecturers on their feedback, support and approachability, all anonymously, of course.
Vini maintains that you don't have to be a lecturer to be valuable to the space of language revitalisation.
Some did manage to establish for themselves a creative space as artists or university lecturers.
"The wall was not for people; it wasn't a public space," explains Heba Helmi, painter, lecturer and political activist, who designed anti-Mubarak publications before the revolution.
So it is, said Joe Rao, an associate and guest lecturer at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Hayden Planetarium, that "over time the Earth's north pole is pointing toward different stars".
The positive of this for me as a lecturer is that my class has a safe online space that they know is their space (and no one else's), and within those boundaries they can do their learning.
"The office is becoming like the mother ship in Star Trek, a docking station that seamlessly combines physical space and cyberspace," said Michael L. Joroff, a senior lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's school of architecture and planning.
Martyn Moss, north-west regional official for the University and College Union, which represents college lecturers, said: "Security guards moved our pickets off the public space around the building on the basis that they were trespassing.
