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What a Special Operations Chaplain Knows

He was the best of us, as they say, but that’s not claiming much moral high ground. Back in what’s...

What Ngo Trung Viet Knows

My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in...

Ask the Administrator: How to Break In

An adjunct, and returning correspondent, writes: If I was an English adjunct at your CC, where would you advise me...

Ask the Administrator: The Best?

A new correspondent writes: Are community colleges required, either by policy or law, to always hire the job candidate who...

Vietnam, Penultimate

Back at the end of February I set out to blog about Spring Essence, a collection of poems by an...

Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment

Where Most Needed is a blog that follows what it calls "the charity industry." Its author, in a recent post...

Ask My Readers: Students Who Outplace

When they apply for admission at my cc, prospective students who haven't placed out already with SAT/ACT scores or AP...

Syncopation

During the academic year, there's a pretty good degree of synchronization on campus. Most people are around frequently enough that...