Fluctuat et Mergitur
Your voice of reason at Paris-Saclay
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Fabian M. Suchanek
Fluctuat et Mergitur is a satirical Web blog about the University of Paris-Saclay and the NewUni project. All texts and images are my own work, unless otherwise marked. The blog is available under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This license protects intellectual property rights, and limits my liability.
The blog mixes facts and fiction. Facts are generally accompanied by a link to the source (in blue) and/or by real screenshots. However, you are reminded that the blog belongs to the category of “belles-lettres”. Therefore, there is no guarantee for the correctness or the completeness of the articles.
Even if the articles are fictional, they can still offend. If you notify me that an article infringes personality rights, or that it divulges non-public information, I will take down the respective passage without delay.
I am writing this blog on my own account, and not in any of the roles that I have at Paris-Saclay, my school, or IP Paris. Even though this blog is available online, I advertise it only to selected people, and not on mailinglists. The reader is kindly asked to do the same.
The purpose of the blog is to raise awareness for things that can be improved in the local university landscape, and to suggest solutions. Before publishing an article, I usually first raise the problem with the entities or people in charge. By way of example, I list here the entities contacted for the GoodUni articles:
- GoodUni Calendar
- the “mention informatique” of Paris-Saclay, ever since I arrived at my school. I have started a taskforce across 11 institutes to collect the different calendars used at Paris-Saclay.
- the head of teaching of Paris-Saclay
- all schools of Paris-Saclay, in person
- the “conseil des tutelles” at Paris-Saclay, in person
- all schools of Paris-Saclay every year. I launched an initiative to harmonize the calendars at Paris-Saclay.
- the director of my school (by email discussion)
- GoodUni Master Programs
- the “Conseil de perfectionnement de la mention informatique” of Paris-Saclay, in person
- the director of my school, in person
- the director of teaching at my school, in person
- basically anybody who wants to listen to it, ever since I arrived at my school
- GoodUni infrastructure
- the head of teaching of Paris-Saclay
- the study coordinator of the computer science department at a major university of Paris-Saclay
- the DSI at Paris-Saclay
- the Synapses team at my school, in person
- the DSI at my school, in person
- GoodUni research
- the director of my school, in person
- the director of research at my school, in person
- the director of my department
- a government poll concerning the simplification of higher education
- basically anybody who wants to listen to it, ever since I arrived at my school
Only when these approaches do not lead to results, I publish an article in the blog. The blog regularly attracts sympathetic attention, and the hope is that this contributes to solving the issues in the end.
The blog is available online at https://suchanek.name/work/org/fluctuat/