This blog continues my tribute to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Faculty training and athletic training is not a match made in Olympic heaven! Among the vast array of occupations represented by the athletes from 8000 countries, the number of college professors is, according my latest calculations, 0. There are probably a lot of reasons we’re not found in the Olympic gene pool. After minimal thought and no research on Google, I generated the following “twisted” top 10. Enjoy!
TOP TEN REASONS YOU WON’T FIND U.S. COLLEGE PROFESSORS ON THE 2010 OLYMPIC TEAM:
10. PowerPoint is not permitted in Olympic events
9. Teammates refuse to complete assignments on Blackboard
8. No one will attend a faculty development workshop at the Olympic Village
7. Home institution will not reimburse “foreign” travel expenses to Vancouver
6. No meetings with agendas and minutes to attend for 2 weeks—what a bummer!
5. Events on snow and ice are too much fun to be scholarly
4. Lecturing to “non-student” teammates will put them in a coma
3. Forbidden to use NIH research funding to support training at Vail
2. Olympians text and tweet; they don’t like to e-mail
AND THE NUMBER 1 REASON:
1. Your department chair or dean will never understand
Maybe by the next Olympics in Russia, a professor will find a way to conquer the above reasons and represent us proudly on the “speed lecturing downhill” team. With the increasing number of furloughs many of you are experiencing, you’ll have more time to practice. Go for it.
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