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Modest proposal #11 - Take the day off

Let's say you live some distance from campus, not near any other employees who work a schedule similar to yours...

Sharing the Wealth

While opposing the push to regulate endowment spending, Sharon Herzberger writes that institutions of means could make more of a difference for low-income students beyond their own campuses.

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.