Mitch Keller
mitchkeller.phd
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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Last cycle there were two apps through the same vendor that had sliders for the ratings and on one the highest rating was to the left while it was to the right for the other. I caught it before submitting, but almost didn’t!
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How are we defining “owned”? I think the first two cars I was the primary/exclusive driver of were titled in my dad’s name. Then there’s also the pickup that I “owned” for two years while living in the UK so that I maintained continuous insurance coverage in the US.
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m thinking Greyhound is more fitting than a flight.
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Can we end the game with a negative number of points?
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Or at least much, much less usable than an HTML page with MathJax rendering the math content.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My understanding is that these tagged PDFs pass automated accessibility checks but still have math content that is completely unusable to screen reader users.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dead tree resources are not impacted by the digital accessibility regulations.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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