Craig Stroupe | Associate Professor of Information Design | Department of Writng Studies | 1201 Ordean Court # 420 | University of Minnesota Duluth | Duluth, MN 55812 | 218-726-6249 | fax 218-726-6882 | cstroupe@d.umn.edu
At
a dinner for a famous Visiting Author...,
the guest of honor, who was sitting next to me, asked what I did on
campus. I rattled on briefly about “advising faculty” and
“online pedagogy.”
Listening carefully, the Visiting Author’s eyes cleared after a moment. She pulled back from me slightly as if to get a better look and said, “You mean distance education?"—as if I had been struggling to find a euphemistic way of explaining that I handled the campus’s medical waste."
— from "Making Distance Presence: The Compositional Voice in Online Learning" published in Computers and Composition (September 2003) More on my scholarship....
Techniques Site
For my classes this semester, I've put together the various technical exercises in a Techniques sub-site.
Most
of us can still remember the sounds of drills grinding and rattling
through cinderblock walls when crews first installed Ethernet cables
in faculty office buildings.
Did that racket signal the first breaching of what Gerald Graff has called the "systematic non-relation" among disciplines, which keeps the university from realizing its social and intellectual mission, or were we hearing only stop-gap dental work near the end of the century to keep the old university from losing its teeth altogether?"
— from "Technologizing
the Conflicts: Graff and the Web" in Pedagogy. More on my scholarship.