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  • It's Official

    By Oronte March 4, 2009 7:14 pm

    I’m the best teacher who ever lived. Anyway I think that’s what the Provost said in the letter she sent to congratulate me for winning the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. I’m honored most by the fact that my former and present students generated and supported my nomination, and that I’ll be presented at a ceremony with a sack of money, which I hear will buy things.

    Yeah, that’s right, Arkansas Ag College. You didn’t bother to call me for a job interview this year, did you? Huh? You said in the listing you valued undergraduate instruction above everything else, but a decade of experience at a Big 10 university and a proven track record didn’t do it for you? Who’s sorry now? Huh? Ah-hahahahahaha, oh-hohohoho.

    [Note to self: Consider revising tone before posting; don’t want to seem ungraciou

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  • Posted by Lee at Art Institute of Atlanta on March 5, 2009 at 7:15am EST

  • Congratulations! That's wonderful news.

  • Congratulations
  • Posted by Erika D. on March 5, 2009 at 10:00am EST

  • That is wonderful news. A richly deserved honor, as anyone who reads your posts on teaching knows. Congratulations!

  • I knew it!
  • Posted by Billy Tokyo at University of Chicago on March 23, 2009 at 5:00am EDT

  • Congrats John! This proves that cider at the Duke has worked wonders for one of us.

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