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This is part three in what has become a series. Last year, the University of Florida attempted to come to grips with the reality of budget crunches and misaligned resources by announcing a ...

A returning correspondent writes: ------- In my CC system, faculty members can teach a 5-5 or a 4-4 load. If we choose the 4-4 load, we do service work in place of the 5th course. I'm in ...

And...we're back. A few vignettes from the last week: The Girl was so happy that she started each morning with a little dance as soon as she got out of bed. It's a variation on a dinosaur stomp, ...

Today is the third birthday of the blog. To celebrate (okay, not really, but a segue is a segue), I'll be taking next week off. The family is piling into our trusty compact and trundling off to a ...

Apparently, a new study suggests that 'study skills' courses for college freshmen improves eventual academic success rates. This bothers me to no end. Proprietary U required a study skills ...

Antioch's demise has brought forth a great deal of ink, much of it smugly self-congratulatory, or bitter, or both. Colleges fail for plenty of reasons, some of them idiosyncratic. Certainly ...

Although he gets a solid twelve hours a night (!), on some school mornings, TB really, really doesn't want to wake up. As the school year is winding to a close, it's getting worse. We've had to ...

A newly-chosen department chair writes (obfuscated for anonymity): ------ We have a looming problem -- a beloved colleague of (several) years is married to a guy who is not as beloved as a ...

Our distance ed coordinator stopped me in the cafeteria last week to report that she's trying to enroll a student in an online class; the student in question is currently deployed in Afghanistan, ...

A new correspondent writes: ----- My question has to do with a dear friend of mine, an assistant professor of music at a small, four-year liberal arts college in the Northeast. Dear Friend ...