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Thoughts on The Innovative University
It can be fun to watch a book get away from its author. The Innovative University, by Clayton Christensen and...
Lessons of HP
(“Lessons of HP” would be a great name for a band. But I digress.) As an academic administrator and sometime...
Tinkering
If at first you don’t succeed... a. You’ve revealed your incompetence. Hide the results or shift the blame, quick! b...
The View from Fifth Grade
“I have a locker!”You forget what’s important when you’re ten.TW and I went to the parents’ open house at The...
Shadow Boxing
Transparency has its limits. My campus recently got into a nasty little kerfuffle over something that shouldn’t have been an...
Thoughts on 'Pinched'
Pinched, by Don Peck, makes me jealous as a writer. (Michael Lewis and Adam Gopnik have that effect, too.) It’s...
The Gated Community College
If you have a kindle, or a kindle app, I really can’t recommend “The Gated City,” by Ryan Avent, highly...
Ask the Administrator: How to Ensure a Diverse Candidate Pool?
A new correspondent writes I work in the English department at a medium-sized but rapidly expanding community college in the...