Confessions of a Community College Dean

My cc is gearing up for yet another discussion of the proper 'cap' on the number of credits taught by...

A fellow blogger writes: Recently, a for profit school opened in our area, and seeing it here, where there's a...

If you're a full-time faculty member, and you get a courseload reduction in exchange for taking on some extra non-classroom...

A new correspondent writes: With a little luck and a lot of hard work (and a long, drawn out application...

A new correspondent writes: I'm interviewing for an interesting non-faculty position soon, and before I go in to the interview...

A regular reader writes: I'd love to hear people's advice on how to fire student assistants gracefully. Better still, I'd...

An occasional correspondent writes: I've been teaching as an adjunct for five semesters at my local community college. I carry...

How do you make new-student orientation actually work? I've seen this tried in any number of ways, and it nearly...