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The Education of Oronte Churm
Look at Me! I'm a Scientist!
August 3, 2007
I wish.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Ask the Administrator: Do CC Students Miss Out?
August 3, 2007
A prospective college student writes:I'm about to start my college career as a freshman at our local community college and today, while searching for articles on community college, I came across your blog. As all my friends are beginning to leave for their four year schools and meet their roommates and have their orientations, now, more than ever, I realize how many of those experiences I won't to get to have. To quote the beginning of an essay in Chicken Soup for the College Soul called College Talk...
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Ask the Administrator: Should Textbooks Count?
August 2, 2007
A new correspondent writes:
The Education of Oronte Churm
Guest Blogger: Benjamin Cohen
August 1, 2007
Today, my friend Benjamin Cohen graciously provides the goods. Ben is an environmental studies scholar who teaches Science, Technology, and Society (in the Engineering School), and Environmental History (in the History Department), at the University of Virginia.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Ask the Administrator: Am I Selling Out?
August 1, 2007
A returning correspondent writes:Well, here I am having just completed my first year as a tenure track faculty member at a community college and excited for next year. I've accomplished a lot last year and I had a very positive first year review (thanks for the help on writing my tenure plan last year, by the way, and thanks to your readers too!). I feel like I'm ready to have another good year but I figured that since you've given such good advice in the past I might be due for a check-up.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Pricing By Major, Revisited
July 31, 2007
I don't usually do back-to-back posts on the New York Times, but this Sunday's issue provided atypically fine fodder.According to this article, more colleges and universities are setting different tuition levels for different majors.
The Education of Oronte Churm
Checagou
July 30, 2007
Poet Rory commented on my previous posting’s line about “newcomer Chicago with her wild-onion breath,” only deepening what is probably a mystery, I now realize, for most r
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Notes on Nerds
July 30, 2007
According to this article in the New York Times, the question of nerd-dom is finally starting to receive a tiny fraction of the attention it deserves.
Reality Check
Differential Pricing
July 29, 2007
The New York Times noticed in its edition of July 29, 2007 the introduction of differential tuition by field into some public universities. While the notion of explicitly charging more for business or engineering majors than for history or English is hardly new, the desperate search for additional revenue to sustain university operations has led to more explicit pricing strategies such as this one.
University Diaries
Against the Grain
July 27, 2007
"The idea that you almost forgot about the world you came from, and the job market you're about to enter...that [college is] a period of self-exploration and intellectual discovery, has faded," says Rick Pearlstein in an interview about an upcoming New York Times piece of his about college. He laments an "internship culture," in which students scramble from the outset of their college years to accumulate vocational goodies.

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