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Classroom Gaffes
When explaining how to prepare adequately for creative writing workshops, I ask new classes to take their peers’ work home...
ABCs and PhD's: Stress
I snow-balled a meltdown as I hurrumphed around this evening, distressed at the resistance of my family to help out...
Space Invaders
Like so many other public colleges, mine is reducing personnel to match reduced budgets. (To its credit, it isn't reducing...
'Economy of Attention'
It is not only people living on islands who count as insular -- etymology notwithstanding. Consider a recent piece by...
Setting Expectations
A new semester means a new round of student requests. Rob Weir knows what to say to students who "need an A."
Why Carr Is Wrong About Cushing Academy
Nicholas Carr writes that he "… feel(s) sorry for the kids at Cushing Academy." Cushing is the New England prep...
Going Public
It's time for all colleges to release an understandable report on how they measure learning, and accreditors should require such disclosure, writes Douglas C. Bennett.
Ask the Administrator: Student Appeals
A new correspondent writes: I am Nursing faculty at a community college, in only my 2nd year in the academic...