The Sandbox

“I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes.”

“Teaching big and small courses at our university is where I belong, where I should be.”

“I wish elected officials, local, state, and federal, could see the faces of my students and how much is stacked against them.”

Some reflections and a whole lot of gratitude to our readers (and anonymous writers).

Do we focus too much on the negative stuff?

Things were going great until they weren't. How do you preserve institutional mission in the face of so many challenges?

“I am unsure whether my lifelong devotion to higher education was worth it.”

If costs outweigh revenue and the model is broken, maybe it’s time to think about how to do things differently.