Welcome to "It's All Academic," a website initially supporting the book pictured to the right. Since then, it has moved past expository observations about higher education to broader (or personal) issues, often in poetic form. Inspiration frequently has come in the form of a series, which are listed as part of the series' specific archives. The menu to the left attempts to categorize all of the archived materials.

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                                    Recent Posts 

A Life In Words Mostly Unread: Part Six -- The Master Tapes (On acknowledging influences)

A Life In Words Mostly Unread: Part Five -- 'Roundabout Here (On the inspirational rotary making up my professional writing)

A Life In Words Mostly Unread: Part Four -- The Cynical Idealist (On idealism in higher education)

A Life In Words Mostly Unread -- Home Page

Falling Angels (Poem about the proliferation of fallen angels)

The Shopping Cart (Poem speculating how others might remember a rather singular moment from 45 years ago)

The Buick (Poem fictionalizing a key part of my father's life in 1946)          

 About David Fleming

I am a retired Provost/Chief Academic Officer.