Mitch Keller
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Mitch Keller
@mitchkeller.phd
I teach math, advise math majors, and do program assessment for UW-Madison. Baker. Global traveler. Photographer. North Dakota native.

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See, the 75 minute meeting is strong evidence of issues. A big part of the problem is the character limits imposed by the COBOL. List names are inscrutable because 5 of 8 characters are occupied by major and plan code 634DS.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are so big that while our chair *can* approve things in Lumen, they know better than to touch it.
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Linear algebra and diffeq together (mostly engineers), standard linear algebra service course, linear algebra that’s also intro to proofs, and honors linear algebra and multicalc and DEs (two semester seq) existed. New course is linear algebra and optimization mainly for CS and DS.
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is what happens when you create a FIFTH introductory linear algebra class.
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We try to tag-team here, so I submit and someone else does the initial approval, but when time is tight, I do my own. The fun ones are when a math course comes around for QR approval, because then I have to use a different role in Lumen to approve that 🙃
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Oh, hey, ours is called Lumen! I have to make the same edit to our major and all six of its named options, then edit all seven four-year plans, then monitor the 9 course change proposals I’ve already submitted, and then submit another 20 more course change proposals by mid January.
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You and Brent Key both, based on his answers on the field after the game was over.
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ummm, Oregon State is a land-grant but Oregon isn’t.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A whole press release that managed to avoid the phrase “artificial intelligence”?!?
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The next follow-up should be

You say no bullets, but what about the missiles you’re using against fishermen?
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
See, I’d have to have learned something in algebraic geometry to think of that reading. I am fond of saying that if the final exam for that class been a page of math terms and all I had to do was circle the ones I was supposed to have learned the defns of in the class, then I would have failed it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
emoticons and even did that on the test. I also had one student who decided to draw an intricate map of Virginia as his new variable, and somehow it didn’t torpedo his grade on the test.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
When I was at W&L, I had a couple of classes that really bought my thing about u not being magical for integration by substitution. One had a group that tried out a whole bunch of variables and decided k was the best and that’s what they all used. Another had a group that drew a variety of
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The money goes from the feds to the states and then to the SNAP recipients, not directly from the feds onto the EBT cards.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
😮
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bison now up and total Sickos play where YSU player takes kickoff to the face and Bison recover it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Don’t try to write anything recursive that passes something like a list of lists. Everything you know about how function calls pass arguments is useless in Python.
October 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
That was the California case. This is the Oregon case.
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM