Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
January 6, 2013 - 9:27pm
Last Friday I had the chance to drop by the MLA conference for the first time ever. In my faculty days, I used to attend APSA fairly regularly; now I can sometimes be found at the League for Innovation or the AACC. The MLA was a new one. But between an opportunity to participate in a bloggers’ panel in the Exhibit Hall Theater and an unusually accessible location, I couldn’t turn it down.
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January 3, 2013 - 8:55pm
See you in the exhibit hall theater at MLA 13 Friday at 1:30! IHE bloggers Mary Churchill, Nate Kreuter, and I will be on the “Career Advice” panel. I’ll offer tips for job candidates who are considering community colleges.
January 2, 2013 - 9:39pm
I still remember the terror and thrill of having my own class to teach for the first time.
January 1, 2013 - 9:30pm
My fellow IHE blogger, Lee Skallerup Bessette, got a bit of a discussion going on Twitter over the break when she posted a real estate listing for an abandoned college campus. In the context of adjunct activism, she proposed pulling people together to buy the campus and start their own college.
December 20, 2012 - 9:20pm
If you can read this, the world didn’t end. So there’s that.
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