Confessions of a Community College Dean

Why are we training students for a dying industry? My college, like so many others, has a student newspaper. It's...

As longtime readers know, I'm no fan of the "D" grade. Basically, I don't understand it. (For the longer version...

-- Yesterday I phoned in a conference talk as Dean Dad. Scott Jaschik did a panel at a regional conference...

Over the past few years, I’ve received job announcements from headhunters on a fairly regular basis. They aren’t personalized, so...

A flustered correspondent writes: I have a math PhD from a good midwestern university, good teaching experience in the past...

This post of Aunt B's, over at Tiny Cat Pants, struck a chord. Close editing, as distinguished from scanning-for-typos, is...

A new correspondent writes: I just read your post on full-time English gigs. Is the picture any brighter for those...

Anne Neal, President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, did a piece in yesterday's IHE that really requires...