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Fun with Boards
Although some on campus like to talk about The Administration as a monolith, like The Borg, it's actually composed of...
Scenes from Thanksgiving Break
A few vignettes from the holiday weekend: *** The Boy at lunch: "I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with...
Access and Limits
Aspazia, characteristically, has a thought-provoking post about applied ethics. This time it's about some partial scholarships that her husband's college...
Advisory Boards
My cc is taking a new look at guidelines for "advisory boards" for various "occupational" degree programs. (A quick definition...
Presidents on Allowances
The Chronicle has had a series over the last week or so about the salaries of college Presidents. I won't...
Hell Hath No Fury
A new correspondent writes: I am a Department Head for a large urban CC in a very small vocational program...
Death Valley
Although the very thought of it makes some academics blanch, I'm beginning to think that "evidence-based management" could be really...
Well, That Explains a Lot...
In the context of discussing ways to encourage her colleagues to try to reach students at different levels of demonstrated...