One More Year To Remember
Dan Lukiv

april 1

stiff with arthritis,
the old dog on the porch
waits

april 2

beside the road
lies a car on its roof--
a beetle upturned

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Could Trump U Help E-learning Advocates?
Scott Warnock, PhD

           The latest e-learning development may have educators seething, trembling, or chuckling. Look out, world, here comes Trump University.

            Of course, Trump U will be unlike those stuffy universities we have become accustomed to. It is slick, streamlined, and useful with a capital U. The home page of this brickless “university” does not showcase images of stately college buildings. Instead, we get an image of the man himself, appropriately so, given the focus here: promote Trump. In a Business Week online article analyzing its launch, Trump U’s president said “the mogul will hold periodic live online Q&A sessions with students and will also address questions through an ‘Ask Mr. Trump’ feature” (Hindo 2005). Before the school was running, its store already enabled students to sport their allegiance to the man, er, university with a hat or polo shirt. This is self-promoter extraordinaire Donald Trump, after all, so once people are asking, “What do I think of this?” he has succeeded.
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Teaching: Looking back at Two Years in Poland
Katherine Weiss, PhD

            Christopher Phelps’s article in the March 2005 issue of Chronicle of Higher Education about teaching in the School of International Relations at the University of Łódź left me angry. Like a patriot who feels that his or her country has been wronged, I launched my defense, bombarding my friends, family, and colleagues with counter attacks. Finally, tired of my complaints, a friend urged me to write about my own experience teaching in Poland.

            Despite facing some of the same frustrations Dr. Phelps encountered, I found my experience at the University of Łódź to be starkly different. I worked at the university’s Department of English Poetry and Drama from October 2002 until September 2004, hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor immediately after having completed my PhD at the University of Reading in England. While in Poland, I taught English and Irish Drama, modern British Literature Survey, a course on Samuel Beckett, another on Sam Shepard, and playwriting as well as composition and ESL classes.
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