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A Really Bizarre Thing
Is this altogether a bad idea? Wisconsin's State Assembly has voted to end all funding for the law school at...
Summer Idyll
It was blessedly cool and bright today, and I walked over to campus, where I haven’t been in weeks. I...
Ask the Administrator: Sports at Community Colleges
A new correspondent writes: Here at Way Up North CC, our little gym just died, and we're renovating it from...
My First Year as President
Karen Gross looks back at what she learned and offers suggestions to other would-be college chief executives.
Ask the Administrator: The Trial Run
A new correspondent writes: I'm currently ABD in an English Department at an R1 school, working on my dissertation and...
American Job Search
Interviewing for a faculty job has become much like interviewing for a factory job, writes Michael Joseph Donlin.
Shake Your Moneymaker
Murray Sperber writes in Declining by Degrees that an “Academic Arms Race” began in the post-Sputnik boom-era for higher ed...
Ask the Administrator: Letters and Writing Samples
A grad school aspirant writes (edited for length): Applying for grad school is pretty different than applying for undergrad, and...