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Reflections on 180 Commencements
Milton Greenberg offers some thoughts on speakers, honorary degrees, protests and the joy of the day.
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Graduation, Kotzebue, 2008
On a campus in a remote Alaskan village, Daniel J. Julius reminds us of how the human spirit triumphs in extreme places.
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Ask the Administrator: The "Four-Year" Degree
A longtime reader writes: Given the experience of some friends, I'm wondering what you think about the end of the...
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The wrong locality
There's been an ongoing exchange on the Green Schools list (GRNSCH-L@listserv.brown.edu). In a nutshell, it simplifies to: Question: Is X...
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Get in the game
According to Newsday (and reported worldwide), IBM and folks at Los Alamos have just raised the bar on computing power...
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Access Without Support Is Not Opportunity
To reach disadvantaged students, colleges need to move beyond minor curricular enhancements and build on bolder initiatives being tried at some community colleges, writes Vincent Tinto.
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Ask the Administrator: Introducing Faculty Rank
A new correspondent writes: I teach at a smallish CC with no tenure system and no faculty rank designations. Technically...
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The Career Coach Is In: Advice to a Wandering Twentysomething
This week, I’m going to include the full letter from a reader, because I think it’s a great illustration of...