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What Ngo Trung Viet Knows
My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in...
Ask the Administrator: How to Break In
An adjunct, and returning correspondent, writes: If I was an English adjunct at your CC, where would you advise me...
Ask the Administrator: The Best?
A new correspondent writes: Are community colleges required, either by policy or law, to always hire the job candidate who...
Vietnam, Penultimate
Back at the end of February I set out to blog about Spring Essence, a collection of poems by an...
Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment
Where Most Needed is a blog that follows what it calls "the charity industry." Its author, in a recent post...
Ask My Readers: Students Who Outplace
When they apply for admission at my cc, prospective students who haven't placed out already with SAT/ACT scores or AP...
Syncopation
During the academic year, there's a pretty good degree of synchronization on campus. Most people are around frequently enough that...
The Girl at Three
The Girl turned three last week. She's very different from her brother. With The Boy, you can see the man...