More History, Less Garlic
ALl the talk around here is about pending Legislation that would bring sweeping changes to GenEd curriculum in Florida colleges.
The "new core" would be 5 classes: one each in Humanities, Science, Math, Communications and Social Science.
Right now, TCC students need 2 Communications, 2 Math, 2 Science, 2 History, 1 Social Science of their choice and a Constitution class plus electives and any prerequisites for their 4 year major.
While Lisa and I were eating buttery bread in the faculty room looking over a copy of the legislation I suddenly considered that these changes -- going from 2 required History classes to ZERO- would affect our staffing now and in the immediate future.
I don't want to be voted off this happy college island. I like it here.
l ask a Dept Chair who wanders into the room to make some copies if he foresaw massive layoffs in the near future and he waves off my crazy thought of impending doom and pink slips and a world without History.
Lisa and I leave the room satisfied and she adds, "This worrying is not like you, Ms. Positive"
I agree, and offer to worry about something more relevant, like skin cancer.
Lisa shakes that off and then I'm quiet enough to notice the wonderful taste still lingering from the bread and butter in the faculty room.
"Was that garlic butter?" I ask Lisa and she says no, it was the wonderful bread that had garlic cloves baked in.
I go back for another piece and ony worry for a second if I wil smell like Olive Garden during today's lecture.
Then I don't care, and get back to looking for interesting things to write about.
