Filter & Sort
Transparent as Running Water
Tim Burke has a characteristically thoughtful post up about transparency and cost-cutting, and the various dilemmas that cost-cutting poses in...
You Forget...
what the world looks like when you're seven. An actual exchange last night: The Boy: You know, I try to...
The Litany
For some reason, there's a persistent subset of people – both faculty and staff – who can't raise one issue...
Grow Your Own
This article from the Chronicle, about spousal hiring, and this one from IHE, about administrative searches in a recession, are...
Pre-Emptive Layoffs
An alert reader sent me the link to this article from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Apparently, the University of Massachusetts...
Wondering Aloud
How is it possible that the comforter is warm, the blanket is warm, and the sheets are freezing? The sheets...
Reserves
The story in the Chronicle yesterday about California paying its community colleges in IOU's got me thinking about reserves, and...
Ask the Administrator: What's Your Motivation?
A new correspondent writes: I've been doing some reading in economics lately and started wondering about higher education. What are...