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Vent to the Administrator: College as Playground
A new correspondent writes: I've been a faithful reader for a while now ... an issue has been brought to...
Fine-Tuning the Crap-O-Meter
My brother -- who sometimes comments as "brother of dean dad" -- sent me an email yesterday about rhetorical moves...
Modest proposal #10 - Pay to park
I'm currently putting the final numbers together for Greenback's greenhouse gas inventory. As on a lot of campuses, the last...
Financial Aid: Buying Student Talent
One of the more interesting features of the current enthusiasm for discussing college costs and the elaborate mechanisms to discount...
The Pursuit of Efficiency and the Pursuit of Folly
While colleges must avoid waste, they need to be careful that demands for cost-cutting -- especially in a period of tight state budgets -- don't destroy their values and mission, write Eric Gilbertson and Daniel Hurley.
Between the Dog and the Fire Hydrant
Someone I respect asked recently why administrators s/he otherwise likes and respects occasionally make horrible, offensive decisions. Why would an...
Professor
Professor is an odd thing. Students call out "Professor!" in the hall, and sometimes they mean me. Professor Soltan. Yet...
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