Confessions of a Community College Dean

This piece in the Chronicle got me thinking about Presidents and Vice Presidents I've worked under who had stayed on...

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I had a good discussion last week with a well-meaning professor who wanted to know why the minimum enrollment to...

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I suspect that variations on this will become more common in the next several years. A new correspondent writes: I...

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From much of the discussion of 'data-driven' reforms that take place at the national level, you'd think that all that...

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Back in my radio days, a fellow dj used to specialize in what he called "collision mixes." He'd pick two...

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A bufuddled correspondent writes: We are in the process of interviewing for a new program director. I am a staff...

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A thoughtful correspondent writes: I'm in a humanities dept. at a very good SLAC. One of our faculty members is...

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What should a college do when a professor fails 90 percent of the students in an intro class? Apparently, at...

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