Physicist at Large

Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Institutionalizing anti-institutional ideology

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I'm going to tread somewhat lightly on some of the issues around student protests, not so much to avoid offense as to focus on bigger-pi...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

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One point I'm coming to realize is that many of the things that drive me crazy in higher ed come, in part, from a type of restlessness. ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Shove it up your assessment

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I have in my "drafts" folder a long post about why higher ed's ongoing struggle to implement "assessment" and all of...

Why so special, education?

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Having noted the problem with under-funding of the fundamentals while the special projects get special treatment, I should note that it is n...

Special Education

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The "Education" part of Higher Education really comprises two different sides.  One side is fairly bread-and-butter, and for the m...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Oh, wait, no way, you're kidding, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?

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More dark thoughts from grading: You know why Eminem got in so much trouble for The Marshall Mathers LP?  It wasn't for his violent ly...

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

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I'm in a dark mood from grading.  If I have to constantly correct errors of subject-verb agreement in papers written by native English s...
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Alex Small
Pomona, CA, United States
I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory. I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.
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