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Ask the Administrator: How to Get a Grade Changed?
A student writes: I failed a class (obtained an F), and was planning to retake it based on the rules...
Counties
As regular readers know, I’m kind of obsessed with questions of structure in American higher education. I’m working on a...
Ask the Administrator: Jumping Into the CC World
A new correspondent writes (edited for anonymity): I have spent the last [many] years as [an academic administrator] at a...
Ask the Administrator: Transferring to a Private College
A new correspondent writes: I have been away from the academic world for a while, and have been made an...
Nieces
The nieces came to visit this weekend. The older niece is three, and the younger one is five months. The...
Define "In the Discipline"
Who’s qualified to teach college level math? This isn’t limited to math, but I’ll start there because it’s concrete. Similar...
Toward Answers
In this week's kerfuffle about the New Faculty Majority – from which other administrators seem to have learned that such...
Saving Stimulus
This is one of those “individually rational, collectively insane” moments. The New York Times reported that some of the federal...