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What Up?
The weekend is here (practically) and this is the place to tell people what you’re doing this weekend and make any and all suggestions about what they should do and where they should do it. [Open Thread]
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Chicago Studies
Hi everyone! As you may or may not know by now, there has been a grassroots faculty movement to offer courses with a Chicago Studies emphasis at Harold Washington College. A few semesters ago faculty...
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Chicago Studies related
For those of you interested in learning more about the history of Chicago architecture, I am posting this link for continuing education seminars provided to me by the Chicago Architectural Foundation....
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Laughing While Wincing
That’s what I did when I read this imagined version of the Mayor’s Farewell Announcement. It’s funny, and more than a little painful, too. From the Chicago Reader; check it out.
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Tuesday Teaching Question
Tuesday Teaching Question is a regular feature that attempts to get a conversation going about teaching. Typically, the questions attempt to be very practical. TTQ is brought to you by CAST. If you...
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FC4 Developments
As you probably know by now (if you’ve been to your mailbox and/or reading your email), your local Faculty Council has been asked by FC4 to collect a survey of sorts from full time faculty regarding...
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One Book, One Chicago: Augie March
This fall’s One Book, One Chicago choice is Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March, which is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman of a young man growing up in Chicago back in the day, with one of...
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A New Blog and A New College
Hi all, If you are interested in Architectural News in Chicago, Chicago Architecture Magazine, published by the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, just launched a companion blog,...
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Chicago Studies: Blog and Book
Hi all, Here’s a link to a decent blog, architecturefarm. Looks like it’s relatively new. It has to do with architecture in the Midwest. The author of the blog will be releasing a new book title...
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Chicago Studies: Mies
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is the father of Modernism in Chicago Architecture. Take a look at this quick video to see how influential he was, and continues to be, in our city and suburbs. I spent 5 years...
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Chicago Studies: Open House Chicago
Chicago Studies will be a semi-regular post to promote the theme in your classroom. If you are like me, you are putting your final touches (or initial touches!) on syllabi this weekend and getting...
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Chicago Studies: Chicago Historical Schools
Chicago Studies will be a semi-regular post to promote the theme in your classroom. Wow, almost the end of the semester and I’ve not had time to provide as many posts as I wanted. My apologies. Here’s...
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Things You Could (Have) Do(ne) Over Break #6: Chicago Studies Edition
So, if you’ve been a reader of this blog for awhile, you might recall that I sometimes throw up some stuff before or after breaks that you could do/could have done as here, here, here, here, and here....
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