'intentional'

[Geoff Nathan]

Yup--that's how I understand the word. But the Educationese speakers have something different in mind...

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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----- Original Message -----

> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net>
> To: "Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>,
> ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:24:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] 'intentional'

> At 1/14/2014 12:34 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan wrote:
> >My current favorite is 'intentional', which has begun appearing in
> >higher education planning contexts in the past year or so. It seems
> >to be quite old in other (religious) contexts, but when our
> >associate Provost for retention insists that any planning in that
> >area be 'intentional', she seems to mean something like what actors
> >mean when they talk about 'being in the moment'.
> >
> >It's not the opposite of 'accidental', but rather something like
> >'with full consciousness of what we're doing'.

> "The creation of traffic gridlock on the George Washington Bridge for
> four days in September 2013 was intentional."

> Report of the Investigative Committee of the Port Authority of New
> York and New Jersey on the Closing of Entrance Lanes from Fort Lee,
> New Jersey, to the George Washington Bridge from September 9 to
> September 13, 2013 (New York and New Jersey: 2014). page [only galley
> proofs available to date].

> Joel

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