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Motherhood After Tenure: What I Wish I'd Known When I Began
Graduate programs rarely prepare you for the myriad skills required for being a successful (let alone happy) professor. Most of...
Introducing 'Sounding Board'
A new forum for conversation about ethics and integrity in higher education.
When Fundraisers Attack, Part One
I’m at the CASE conference in San Diego, seeing what “development” (that is, fundraising) officers at community colleges talk about when they gather. (CASE is the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.) It’s a national organization of development officers from all sectors of nonprofit higher ed, but this is their first conference focused specifically on community colleges.
And Now, For Those Of You That Have Been Working in Higher Ed For Awhile. . . .
Several weeks ago we opened a survey to gather input from people that are new to higher education. The responses are quite interesting – varied and interesting.
Breaking the Job Search Silence
Putting my money where my mouth is. Proverbial money. I'm contingent, after all.
Dean of Students Hosts a Reddit AMA
Posing questions on Twitter is a great way to discover things that you didn't know. For example, last week I tweeted out the following question: "Who are your favorite Deans of Students on Twitter?" In a short amount of time, I received a large number of responses. There will definitely be a post in the future that covers that particular question. However, for now, I wanted to share one of the responses that immediately caught my attention:
Chandrasekaran's "Little America"
If you read (or place in your syllabus) only one book this year about the U.S. war in Afghanistan, then Little America should be it.
Ginkgotree: Digital Course Packets Made Easier
A new startup launches today to help make it easier for professors to create digital course packets for their students.