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As The Boy Turns
Without so much as warning me, The Boy has started to move from small child to proto-tween. Yes, I'm biased...
Ask the Administrator: Self-Paid Interview Travel?
A new correspondent writes: I've found myself in a little conundrum lately. I was contacted last week that I got...
Ask the Administrator: The "Four-Year" Degree
A longtime reader writes: Given the experience of some friends, I'm wondering what you think about the end of the...
Ask the Administrator: Introducing Faculty Rank
A new correspondent writes: I teach at a smallish CC with no tenure system and no faculty rank designations. Technically...
From the Departments
From the 'Signs of Hope' department: apparently, the top-selling vehicles in America for the last fifteen years have been trucks...
What FERPA Assumes
As a card-carrying administrator, I loves me some FERPA. FERPA is the privacy law that forbids us from discussing an...
The Class Must Go On
Every so often I read or hear about something so obvious, and so brilliant, that I actually get mad at...
Citibank to CC's: Drop Dead
Several alert readers sent me links to this article from the New York Times. Apparently, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and...