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Sometimes It Actually Works
Like Tolstoy's unhappy families, every bad meeting is bad in its own particular way. Some elements of lousy meetings are...
Grade Inflation, Employee Edition
This time of year brings with it the annual flood of program reviews, employee evaluations, and end-of-year wrap-ups. (Between the...
Growing Your Own
The Chronicle and IHE each have articles about succession planning for college administrators. They're both relatively supportive of hiring internal...
Monday Musings
In discussing a nearby park, TG asked me “why did they put a hill there when they designed the world?”...
Assessing Professional Development
Most colleges set aside at least some 'professional development' money for faculty and staff. The idea behind it is that...
Teaching and Sorting
Via Cold Spring Shops, I ran across this quote from conservative commentator David Frum: Why are the wages of the...
Ask the Administrator: Decoding Mixed Signals
A regular correspondent writes: What do you do when the combination of a dean with a tentative style and an...
Ask the Administrator: Cheap Shots in Student Course Evaluations
A Canadian correspondent writes: The CC has dramatically different standards and practices from the other schools [at which I've taught]...