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I had a good conversation this week with someone who works at one of our major feeder high schools. It's in a low-income district, and since it's close by, we get tremendous numbers of its ...

Dear Dept of Ed, Thanks for the wonderful grant support you've offered recently to community colleges. With enrollments up and state support down, it couldn't have come at a better time. That ...

(hat-tip to Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Moose a Muffin...) If you give a prof a project, he'll want a course release to go with it. If you give him the course release, he'll want a ...

If I had plenty of ambition and no conscience at all, this would be my plan to get my cc through the crisis and emerge with greater resources and cachet on the other side: Upscale. Although ...

"I wish you could see my thinks, but they're stuck in my brain and I can't get them out." -- The Girl --------- At parents' lunch at TG's school, a little boy from her class came up ...

I've opined before that academic deans, and community colleges, need more glamorous portrayals in the media. Dean Wormer from Animal House had one great line ("fat, drunk, and stupid is no way ...

Sherman Dorn has a nice response to yesterday's post, in which he basically argues that established unions are generally better off when administrators are competent than when they aren't. (Nascent ...

Several alert readers sent me this story about Southwestern College, a cc near San Diego. According to the IHE account, the college has banned several faculty, including the past and current ...

A new correspondent writes: I've just started my first quarter as a part-time English instructor at a community college near Big City, and I was lucky enough to get a full load. Next quarter, ...

These three articles are all about the same thing: kids today... Tim Burke's piece details the issues of self-presentation among Swarthmore students. The piece about Morehouse College details ...