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It isn't often that you can see a historical inflection point this clearly. Posted on the same day, these two articles need to be read next to each other. In essence, at the very moment that ...

With the budget situation continuing to worsen, we're often unable to replace people when they leave. When the people in question are full-time staff with relatively niche functions, things get ...

In a couple of discussions on campus this week, I've had variations on this exchange: Prof: So this is why I think we should do this. Will you pay for it? DD: I don't know. The budget picture ...

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 ...