Poems about Higher Education

September (Villanelle regarding the calmness of September for academia)

The First Week (On first weeks from academia)

Exile From The Hippodrome (On no longer being part of faculty orientation weeks)

Bullet-In Boards (Congressional Hearings of College Officials)

So Few Fish For The School (Feeding frenzies for college students)

Fluency (On degrees in social influencing)

Gradually (The dysfunction of grad schools)

Dear Dante (Poem on the continued abuse of language)

The Third-Party Line (What can happen as Higher Ed moves more and more to third-party payers)

The Fourth Time (Starting a COVID-infused semester for the fourth time)

Total College Makeover (New University of Austin, egads)

The Vaccination Fight Song (Do you penalize or reward vaccinations at this point?)

Fault Lines (Changing Landscape of College Athletics)

Industrial Jackhammers (Academics destroying academia)

Hearing Disorder (Budget hearing ennui)

Artifacts & Academics: Paper (Not throwing away old lecture notes)

Familiar Scripts (Current state of higher ed)

Reflections In A Stagnant Pool (Conference reflections)

The Nothing Economy (Education as an economy)

Snow Falling on Seniors (Weather challenges with dual enrolled students)

We're Not Like Everybody Else (But, then again, Neither is Everybody Else) (Not all colleges are defined by the headlines)

A Matter of Time (Dual enrollment)

We All Need Something to Stan(d)for(d) (Stanford rapist getting slap on hands)

Trashy Poetry (Faculty who don't want to empty their own trash)

Don't Cite a Tweet as a Research Feat (Tweets aren't noteworthy citations)

Choose Your College Like A Cut Of Meat (On the selling of official university/college beef)

Univ-onics (The new language of higher education)