Welcome to "It's All Academic," a website serving many functions for a decade. It started as support for the book pictured to the right; then was devoted entirely to topics related to higher education. After 10 years, I find I have little original left to say on that topic. The general blog category below may likely hold more personal observations or original poetry. During the late spring and summer of 2020, it featured the 365 Artists in 365 Days series (as below). That was resurrected in late Spring 2022, but without daily commitment.  Lots of archives to the left.

If you like anything here, feel free to leave a comment at the contact page.

Recent Blogs -- General

So Few Fish For The School (Sonnet on fishing . . . for students)

A Mountaineer Stands At The Edge Of The Enrollment Cliff (WVU to get smaller)

Tina Turner (We Don't Need Another Hero) (Double dipping in the song series for the inappropriate heroes for higher education)

Moral Panic (Poem on the fear-mongering)

Dear Comrade (On receiving the infamous "Dear Colleague" letters)

Recent Blogs -- 365 Artists in 365 (non-consecutive) Days

June 4, 2023 -- Day 257: The Church "Grind"

June 1, 2023 -- Day 256: 38 Special "Hold On Loosely"

May 30, 2023 -- Day 255: Radiohead "Creep"

May 27, 2023 -- Day 254: Loggins & Messina "Your Momma Don't Dance"

May 22, 2023 -- Day 253: Talking Heads "The Great Curve"

See categories in the menu to the left for more information regarding some 800 or so archived posts.

 About David Fleming

I am Provost at Southwestern Michigan College and hack writer.