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Monday, December 5, 2011

The Rosetta Stone of the Jacobs' Administration

The website listed immediately below generates academic gibberish that resounds of the linguistic and faux-programmatic style of the current UT administration. Please see:


Learn what it's like to experience the illusionary power of the phrase, "In the beginning was the Word," and see the futility in the current administrative policy of, "Words-without-end-amen."

verbs,
adjectives, nouns
agendize
aggregate
assess
benchmark
cultivate
deliver
deploy
disaggregate
disintermediate
drive
embrace
empower
enable
engage
engineer
enhance
envision
evolve
expedite
exploit
extend
facilitate
generate
grow
harness
implement
innovate
integrate
iterate
leverage
maximize
mesh
morph
optimize
orchestrate
recontextualize
reinvent
repurpose
revolutionize
seize
strategize
streamline
synergize
synthesize
target
transform
transition
triangulate
unleash
utilize
visualize
assessment-driven
authentic
bottom-up
brain-compatible
child-centered
classroom-based
collaborative
collegial
compelling
competency-based
constructivist
cooperative
critical
cross-curricular
developmentally appropriate
discipline-based
dynamic
efficient
global
group-based
hands-on
holistic
impactful
innovative
inquiry-centered
integrated
interactive
interdisciplinary
intuitive
learner-centered
learning-intensive
literature-based
mastery-focused
meaning-centered
metacognitive
mission-critical
multidisciplinary
multi-media
objective
open-ended
outcome-based
over-arching
peer-based
performance-based
performance-driven
proactive
problem-based
process-based
real-time
real-world
research-based
revolutionary
school-based
school-to-work
shared
site-based
standards-based
strategic
student-centered
subjective
synergistic
technology-enhanced
thematic
top-down
visionary


action plans
action-items
alignment
applications
articulation
assessment
business partnerships
cohorts
communities
competencies
content
convergence
critical thinking
curriculum compacting
curriculum integration
curriculum
decision-making
dialogue
differentiated lessons
education
enrichment
ESLR's
experiences
facilitators
functionalities
goals
higher-order thinking
infrastructures
initiatives
instruction
interfaces
learning
learning styles
life-long learning
living documents
manipulatives
mastery learning
methodologies
models
multiple intelligences
networks
niches
objectives
outcomes
paradigms
paradigms
pedagogy
problem-solving
processes
relationships
risk-takers
scaffolding
schemas
solutions
staff development
stakeholders
strategies
styles
synergies
systems
teaching
technologies
units

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Two terms that seem to be missing : Faculty, and Liberal Arts . Methinks this administration hopes to dispense with both.

Anonymous said...

Tenure is missing, but so is bonus: one will go so the other can stay...

Anonymous said...

Bingo !

Anonymous said...

Don't forget analytics!

Anonymous said...

I like "top-down": here is an organization aspiring to be innovative yet can't get away from the antiquated model of top-down bloated administration. They want to take on the enterprise model, but look what the Japanese companies could do what we can't here in the US: get rid of useless CEOs and their cronies. So much for the business model, eh??? They still need the protection in the public sector. Don't you love the irony!?

Anonymous said...

How about "charter university"?