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There's a thought-provoking piece in IHE this week by Charles Middleton, President of Roosevelt University, about hiring senior administrators from outside of higher education. It touches on themes ...

A semi-new correspondent writes: You mentioned having too few faculty for student advising... do you or would you use "adjuncts" for this? My gig is asking me (and other adjuncts) to ...

A new correspondent writes: Most department heads/chairs are fair. That's something I'll just spot for the sake of agreement. Some are not. When it comes to dealing with course approvals and ...

Word has it that my state is considering requiring students to file FAFSA (Federal financial aid) forms as a condition of admission to a cc. The idea, as near as I can figure, is not to leave ...

One of my major growth moments as an administrator came in my first year. In a meeting about course scheduling, I made a crack about how teaching too many sections of composition in a single ...

I'm playing another round of every manager's favorite game, "why wasn't I notified?" Last Spring we put out calls for proposals for how best to spend our stimulus money. We had ...

Readers of a certain age have probably heard of the white glove test. As I understand it, it was a test of cleanliness in which a woman (it was always a woman) wearing a white fabric glove would ...

This September has been a lesson in what happens when you try to scale up really quickly, with less money. On balance, things have gone better than expected. The parking situation hasn't been ...

On my campus, we're discussing a change that's generating some feedback along the lines of "well, if everyone just did what they were supposed to do, that wouldn't be necessary." Back ...

It's a commonplace of for-profit management that units can be characterized in one of three ways: rising stars, cash cows, and dogs. The savvy manager is supposed to feed the stars, milk the cows, ...