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Weird and Dangerous Days
It’s been one of those weeks. Our semester is nearly done, and at first I blamed the odd events on...
Day in the Life
Continuing his series on community colleges, Wick Sloane offers a glimpse of the rewards and challenges that two-year-college faculty members find inside and outside the classroom.
Ask the Administrator: Building a Community College
A Tennessee correspondent writes: Does building a new community college make economic sense for a cash-strapped community? Where can one...
Scathing Online Schoolmarm
A professor at the University of Colorado sends SOS the following intriguing letter a freshman there wrote to the campus...
Modest proposal #8 - Steal some good songs
I once heard Waylon Jennings -- former guitar player for The Crickets -- describe someone (not, to my knowledge, a...
You Want ME to Write the Institutional History?
Steve Weinberg describes how it went when a journalism school turned to him -- an investigative reporter on its faculty -- to memorialize its centennial.
Not Pretty in Pittsburgh
An alert reader sent me links to these articles from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about a power struggle among the Westmoreland...
Overseeding
A poem by Laurence Musgrove, whose campus was shut down for the start of the week because of a threat.