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A Canadian correspondent writes: My husband and I have to go talk to the dean at our local college regarding our son who is going into his final semester there (our son of course will be joining ...

One of the saving graces of working at a community college is that I don't hear the dreaded "what are you going to do with that?" question directed at students who major in liberal arts. ...

A frustrated correspondent writes: I just stumbled across your blog and thought it would be worth a shot hearing someone else's perspective on my situation. I have been teaching English at the CC ...

As part of my bury-myself-in-books break, I finally got the chance to read Saving Alma Mater, by James Garland. Garland is the former President of Miami University of Ohio, a public research ...

I hope your Christmas break was restorative. A few highlights of ours: --The Boy scored his first gametime basket! As the center, he usually focuses on rebounding, but he made an elegant shot ...

As the family and I settle in for a much-needed Christmas break, I just want to thank my wise and worldly readers for helping me work through so many conundrums (conundra? conundrii? conundrae?) ...

A foreign correspondent writes: I've been in and out of academia in my career in the creative sector, firstly with a five year stint in a small regional non-US CC equivalent where I learnt the ...

I read somewhere that 90 percent of acting is casting. The idea was that plenty of actors are capable of performing well in the right role; the trick is matching the actor to the role. I'm ...

An occasional correspondent writes: I've applied for a dean of students position for which I know I'm unusually well-qualified and temperamentally suited. However, thanks to the economy and the ...

A new correspondent writes: I'm in the market for for an administrative position in higher ed, and as I've been interviewing, I've noticed two distinct approaches to budget cuts. The first is an ...