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Here They Come, Walking Down the Street
Students are returning to Hinterland’s campus in droves, and it’s not even dorm move-in yet, let alone the start of...
Ask the Administrator: Following Up on an Application
A new correspondent writes: I'm in need of some advice regarding a CC job that I applied for. I'm currently...
Surviving the First Year
As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.
Dynes Dines
When universities, and university systems, become very rich and very byzantine, it's both hard to run them and easy to...
Drinking and Deaning
According to this article, Anthony Campbell, the Dean of Students at Rider College (N.J.), has been indicted on charges of...
Score One for the Secretary
Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.
Time to Step Back
Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.
Differences in the Two-Year Sector
There's a nifty piece (and discussion) in yesterday's IHE about a new classification system adopted by the Education Department to...