I was struck dumb the other day (an easy pose for me) when I saw the release of the special 40th Anniversary edition DVD of The Graduate. I have seen The Graduate maybe 20 times, maybe more. It’s one of
Pulp
The first semester I was a college teacher I began receiving treatments for films that went a little like this: Two hit men, one black and one white, in black suits travel around the city. or A man with a
The Classic Film
There is something really comforting in that old stand by, the classic film. It’s that film you have seen a half dozen times at least, or you flip on the TV and there it is and you sit down and
Improvisation
I like to joke that as a teacher I make it up as I go along. All that preparation- who needs it? If I wanted to do homework I would be a student not a teacher. I am mostly joking,
Collaboration part 3
We made it. Flashpoint Academy opened its doors on Monday and welcomed their first class. Monday was orientation and as part of it we screened Dean Paula Froehle’s film, “The Collector,” and our “making of The Collector” documentary. The similarities
Doing it Right
There was an interesting editorial in Friday’s New York Times about how the University of California-Irvine botched the hiring of the dean of their new law school scheduled to open in 2009. This was fascinating to me in many ways.
Circle of Life
“Old Man look at my life, I am a lot like you were.” I heard that Neil Young song recently and those lyrics really hit home. 40 some years ago my dad and mom packed up their relatively comfortable New
Starting Up
Prior to Flashpoint the only previous experience I have with a start up venture was 20 years ago when I worked for the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Even then I was just a first generation hire, starting right around the
Post It!
Who would have thought that the most valuable tool in building a college curriculum would be Post It Notes? In the Flashpoint office we have a wall, much like this one, full of two-foot square month by month calendars going
Drinking the Kool-Aid
On Wednesday this past week Howard Tullman, President and CEO of Flashpoint Academy, cuffed me on the back of the head. Yesterday, as we were waiting for people to arrive at a Flashpoint open house, founder and chairman Ric Landry
