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Retreat! (Or, In Which I Bash Other Administrators)

Careful readers will notice that, from time to time, I take the occasional potshot at some of the tenured types...

Gen Ed

IHE's story yesterday about a kerfuffle over Gen Ed reforms at the University of Kentucky convinced me that the issues...

Baby Got (Hatch)Back: An Automotive Snark

Last week, car shopping went abruptly from "I should think about that" to "I need to do this right now,"...

Print 'Em and Ship 'Em

A new correspondent writes: >Why do community colleges mail catalogs to everyone? It seems like a lot>of expense for something...

Ask My Readers: Grad School Admissions

An assiduous undergraduate correspondent writes: Is it actually encouraged to email prospective advisors at the schools to which you will...

Bad Job, but Not Malpractice

Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...

Charity and Sustainability

I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...

The Charity Shakedown

A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...